Relating to or arranged in two rows or lines; having the arrangement of a distich in botany or poetry.
From distich + -al (adjective suffix). Applied to botanical arrangements where leaves or structures appear in exactly two rows along a stem.
Botanists use 'distichal' to describe plants where leaves perfectly alternate in two opposite rows—it's such a neat geometric pattern that plants seem to be demonstrating the number two.
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