Their main channels bifurcate, and each new stream so created throws off its own set of distributaries to right and left.
Each division of the tricarpellary ovary of Jatropha Curcas has a bifurcate or forked style, and the ovary of Emblica officinalis has three styles, each of which is twice forked.
Bifurcate: divided, not over half its length, into two dull points; forked.