1.The shaft of the ceremonial mace is the whorled tusk of a narwhal, a small Arctic whale. The door handles are of walrus tusk.
仪式权杖的螺纹杆是用一种小型的北极独角鲸的牙齿制成的，而门柄也是用海象的牙齿制成。
2.The leaves, which may be simple or compound, are usually alternate, occasionally opposite or whorled, and often in basal rosettes .
叶为单叶或者是复叶，通常是互生，也有对生或轮生的。
3.branches whorled, distant, ascending or spreading, branched, up to 12 cm, spikelets diffuse.
分枝轮生，远，上升或开展，分枝，可达厘米，铺散的小穗。
4.branches whorled, slender, usually obliquely ascending, up to 10 cm, often bare of spikelets in lower part.
轮生，纤细，通常斜升的分枝，可达10厘米，没有小穗在下部的通常。
5.Our results support the viewpoint that the spiral phyllotaxis and the whorled phyllotaxis can coexist in a flower of primitive angiosperms.
本文结果支持在原始被子植物花中螺旋状排列和轮状排列同时存在的观点。
6.Inflorescence a panicle, loosely contracted to dense and spike like, often plumose, branches usually whorled, bearing numerous spikelets.
花序圆锥花序，对紧密和穗状松弛收缩，羽状的通常，通常轮生的分枝，着生多数。
7.Leaves scaly, opposite or alternate and distichous or spiraled, sometimes whorled, rarely contorted or clustered, without stomata.
叶鳞片状，对生或者互生并二列或螺旋，有时轮生，很少扭曲或丛生，没有气孔。
8.Stem erect. Cauline leaves alternate or whorled, sessile, linear-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate.
茎直立茎生叶交替的或轮生，无柄，线状披针形的到椭圆形披针形。
9.Leaves simple, entire or rarely gland-fringed, opposite or sometimes whorled, nearly always estipulate.
叶为单叶，全缘或少数具流苏桩腺体，对生有时轮生，几乎总是无托叶。
10.Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or whorled, simple or variously pided.
托叶无叶互生，很少对生或者轮生，单或各式全裂。