imbricate

bracts imbricate or sometimes basal ones connate into concentric rings, sometimes triangular, appressed, obscure.

bracts usually connate into concentric rings but apical ones imbricate, triangular, small, appressed.

bracts conspicuous, spirally imbricate or decussate, persistent or sometimes caducous in fruit.

bracts densely imbricate, margin hyaline and short ciliate, usually caducous.

Petals 5, differing slightly in size, imbricate, sometimes unguiculate, free, keel without apical appendages.

Petals as many as sepals, inserted below margin of disk, free, imbricate, sometimes absent.

Sepals 5, imbricate, hairy or glabrous, persistent and enlarged after anthesis, closely clasping base of follicle.

winter buds dark brown, ovoid, imbricate scales ca. 9 pairs, outside tomentose, deciduous soon after flowers or leaves mature.

bracts imbricate, persistent and enlarged in fruit, margin entire.

Petals 4 or 5, inserted near mouth of calyx tube, imbricate or valvate in bud, conspicuous or not, or absent.

Male flowers: perianth tube rigid, short, lobes 5, usually distinct beyond disk, valvate or slightly imbricate in buds.

bracts ca. 10, broadly ovate, shorter than or ca. same size as calyx, mucronate, imbricate, closely contacting calyx.

Leaves decussate, sessile, appressed and crowded, imbricate, usually 4-ranked.

Axillary buds of most apical leaves in false-terminal buds, usually enclosed by 2 outer scales, imbricate within.

Rhizomes clothed in hard imbricate scales, roots woolly.

Sepals (calyx lobes) 5, partially connate into calyx tube, imbricate, persistent.

Perianth segments 5, white or reddish, distinct or connate at base, imbricate in bud, persistent in fruit.

Petals 5, free, imbricate, unequal, clawed, adnate from middle to upper part of calyx tube.

Winter bud outer scales numerous, imbricate.

7 (6) Inflorescences lateral, or several clustered and axillary, base with numerous persistent imbricate scales.

terminal buds and lateral buds with imbricate scales.

Corolla valvate at base of lobes, apically lobes often folded on 1 side and appearing imbricate, tubular, lobed to middle, plicae absent.

Sepals 5(or 6), imbricate, persistent or caducous, unequal in size, outside pubescent to velutinous, inside brown and glabrous.

pedicels articulate. Sepals 3(-5), imbricate, free or joined at base only, small, ciliate, caducous, rarely persistent.

Sepals 5, imbricate, adaxial 1(or 3) extended into a long slender nectariferous spur.

Buds flattened, conical or ovoid, usually with 2 large imbricate glabrous scales.

Corolla urceolate to campanulate, tube as long as to longer than lobes, lobes imbricate in bud.

Sepals 5, leathery, concave, imbricate, outer 2 smaller, orbicular, inner ones usually broadly ovate or elliptic.

Sepals 5, often petaloid, caducous or persistent, imbricate.

Calyx 5-lobed with a short tube, sepals imbricate or twisted.

Petals 5, imbricate, white, ovate to orbicular, base cuneate, apex obtuse.

Winter bud outer scales imbricate, pale red-brown.

Sepals 4, small, ovate, oblong-ovate, or deltoid, bases connate, imbricate in bud.

Petals white, oblong to elliptic, 3-4 mm, broad, slightly imbricate in bud, outside pubescent, apex acuminate to obtuse.

flower buds conical, scales ovate, imbricate, pubescent only on the margin and at the apex.

Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent, unequal.

Winter bud scales dark brown, imbricate.

Petals distinct, imbricate or narrowly so in bud.

Sepals 4 or 5, imbricate, joined in basal part to form a shallow or deeper cup, free above, cup never adnate to ovary.

Petals 5 or lacking, free or adnate to base of androecium, convolutes imbricate.

Tepals 4 or 5, persistent, free or connate at base, equal or unequal, imbricate in bud, green or sometimes other colored.

Sepals 5, imbricate, slightly united at base, differing in size, or equal.

Leaves of fertile stems digitate, 3-9-segmented, scattered, imbricate; capsule smooth.

Petals 4, small, free, imbricate in bud, oblong-ovate, oblong, or linear.

Sepals 2-5, imbricate, free or slightly united, thinly membranous or with nearly pellucid margins.

Petals (4 or)5, free, rarely slightly connate at middle, imbricate or valvate, rarely circinate.

pedicels articulate. Sepals 4-7, imbricate, slightly connate at base, green, small.

Sepals (4 or)5, free or united at very base only, imbricate or valvate, persistent and clasping base of fruit.

involucral bracts triangular-ovate; apical bracts in 4 or 5 rows, broadly triangular-ovate, imbricate, rosulate.

Petals 3-5, short, concave, quincuncial or imbricate in bud, distinct or rarely basally connate and adnate to staminal tube.

Calyx lobes 5, free or united at base, imbricate in bud if not united.

Sepals 5, distinct or connate at base, imbricate.

Perianth lobes 4-9, imbricate or rarely valvate, persistent or caducous.

Sepals 5, free or partly connate, imbricate.

Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent, basally connate. Petals 5, white or yellowish white, imbricate, basally slightly connate.

winter buds ovoid, scales 4 or 6 pairs, imbricate, lustrous brown, ciliate.

Annual; spikelets ca. 3 mm, imbricate on rachis.

Corolla campanulate; lobes 5(--7), imbricate or valvate.

Calyx small, 5-parted to middle, imbricate.

Petals 5, white, imbricate in bud, basally slightly connate.

Petals 5, yellow, imbricate.

Sepals 5, imbricate, outer 2 smaller, persistent.

Sepals 5, free or united at base, imbricate.

Petals 3, concave, imbricate in bud.

Petals 4-6, distinct, linear-oblong, imbricate to valvate in bud.

Petals 6, imbricate, white, equal, oblong, ca. 2 cm, concave.

ovules axle, 2-6 per locule, binate or imbricate from apex to base per locule.

Sepals (4 or)5, seated on middle or upper part of ovary, imbricate, equal or unequal, accrescent and winglike in fruit.

Sepals (4 or)5[-7], persistent, imbricate, green, white, yellow, or purple.

Petals 2-5, imbricate in bud, free, membranous.

Petals (3-)5(-8), mostly free, clawed to sessile, contorted or imbricate.

Petals 4, imbricate in bud.

Corolla 4--6-lobed, imbricate or twisted.

Sepals (2-)4 or 5(or 6), imbricate or decussate or rarely wholly united in bud, inner ones sometimes petaloid.

Calyx 4- or 5-parted almost to base, imbricate.

Calyx 5- or 6-parted, imbricate.

Petals 4 or 5(or 6), valvate or narrowly imbricate in bud.

Petals 3-5, imbricate in bud.

Sepals (2 or 3 or)5, imbricate, rarely valvate.

Seeds numerous, imbricate, compressed, winged or with a membranous margin;

Winter buds large, viscid resinous or not, with several pairs of imbricate scales;

Leaf sheaths loose, strongly compressed, keeled, basal sheaths imbricate;

Leaf sheaths imbricate, often keeled, margins membranous;

scales imbricate, several, dark reddish brown, glabrous or sparsely pubescent apically. Leaves simple;

Leaf sheaths loose, imbricate on the short erect shoots, pilose or only ciliate along margins;

bracts densely imbricate, outer ones leathery, sterile, inner ones membranous, slimy, 1-flowered;

peduncle short or rather long, clothed with imbricate, scale like sheaths;

Leaf sheaths broad, rounded on back, imbricate;

Herbs perennial. Stems densely pulvinate, densely branched, 4--5 cm. Leaves congested, imbricate;

Female flowers: sessile; calyx lobes 4, imbricate, fleshy in fruit;

Female flowers: sessile; calyx lobes 4, imbricate, fleshy in fruit;

Male flowers: perianth lobes (4 or)5, slightly imbricate, transversely crested below apex;

Inflorescences 2-4-flowered, with several imbricate bracteoles at base;

tepals imbricate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 mm, glabrous;

Female flowers: sepals 5(or 6), free, imbricate, usually persistent in fruits;

Racemes lateral, rarely terminal, 9-14 cm, with numerous imbricate scales at base;

Female flowers: sepals 4-10, often connate into shortly lobed cup, imbricate;

bracts imbricate or lax, 1- or more flowered;

bracts imbricate when young, semiorbicular to suborbicular, small, ca. 0. 5 mm, apex sometimes acute;

bracts small. Male flowers: perianth lobes (2-)4 or 5, valvate or imbricate, often corniculate near apex;

Female flowers: sepals 5-6, unequal, imbricate, slightly accrescent;

Male flowers: sepals 4-8, usually unequal, imbricate;

Male flowers apetalous: sepals 4-6, imbricate;

sepals 3-5, imbricate, accrescent or scarcely enlarged in fruit;

bracts imbricate, purple with green margin, obovate to broadly ovate, 2. 5--3. 5 cm, pubescent, apex obtuse;

Male flowers: sepals (4 or)5 or 6, free, in 2 series, imbricate, oblong-elliptic, midrib elevated abaxially, apex caudate-acuminate;

Male flower: sepals 4-6, imbricate;