The deflexed, or drooping falls, are obovate, or cuneate (wedge) shaped. The obovate or cuneate falls, curl under themselves, and are flaring. The scales are ovate to cuneate in shape and measure in length by in width. The spikelets are cuneate with one fertile floret. These fasciculi end in rounded elevations known as the gracile and the cuneate tubercles. Each nucleus has an associated nerve tract, the gracile fasciculus and the cuneate fasciculus. Together the gracile and cuneate form the dorsal column in the spine. These second-order neurons begin in the gracile and cuneate nuclei in the medulla. The base of the leaf is rounded to cuneate in shape. Leaf blades are usually elliptical, with a cuneate base and an acute tip. Rhachilla is extended while sterile florets are barren, cuneate and are clumped. The cuneate nucleus is wedge-shaped and located in the closed part of the medulla. The stiff leaves are narrowly wedge-shaped (cuneate) and measure in length by wide. In this context, the "cuneo-" derives from the accessory cuneate nucleus, not the cuneate nucleus. Monocled cobras tend to have more than one cuneate scale on each side.