There is one floret per spikelet with several spikelets per branch. Each spikelet is long and consists of two glumes and two florets. The inflorescence is variable, bearing a single spikelet to over 100. Each "package" of glumes, lemma and palaea, and grain(s) is known as a spikelet. Palea, in Poaceae, refers to one of the bract-like organs in the spikelet. A fertile, unstalked spikelet is subtended by a sterile, stalked spikelet. The panicles are long and often consist of a single spikelet. Each spikelet has one or more florets. Each spikelet contains 5 to 8 florets. Each flat and pointed spikelet is long and has four to twelve florets. The panicles can be dense or reduced to just one spikelet. Flowers appear in compact spike-like racemes with 5-25 flowers on each short-stalked spikelet in summer. The part of the spikelet that bears the florets is called the rachilla. Lemma is a phytomorphological term referring to a part of the spikelet.