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barren stalk fastigiate Ear shoots often absent; tassel branches erect; ear primordia fuse with developing internode.
barren stalk fastigiate The dry stalk of a baf1 plant showing one ear (the third) fusing with an internode, and above that a split in the next internode above a rudimentary second ear, and above that the vestiges of the first ear.

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