bracteole

Flowers axillary, bisexual, zygomorphic, solitary, with a pair of bracteoles at joint of peduncle and pedicel.

Flowers solitary in leaf axils or in spikes, usually with a pair of bracteoles.

Bracteoles connate, forming an involucre; flowers unisexual, solitary, male flower with each stamen with a tongue like appendage behind it.

Leaf blade usually elliptic, leathery, apex acute to acuminate, abaxially scattered punctate; bracteoles close to calyx.

bracteoles nearly opposite, linear or narrowly lanceolate, sparsely glandular-fimbriate along lower margin, apex acuminate.

bracteoles prominent, similar to bracts, rigid, longer than and fringing the flowers, persistent and remaining spreading after fruiting.

Umbels compound; bracts and bracteoles numerous, ovate-lanceolate, largely enveloping flowers.

veins pinnate. Male inflorescences discoid, fleshy, many-flowered, without interfloral bracteoles, pedunculate.

Bracteoles glabrous; lateral ribs of fruit broad-winged, wings wider than the body.

Bracteoles spirally arranged on pedicel, differentiated from sepals, persistent or caducous.

Upper bracteoles boat-shaped, with a conspicuously winged keel.

Leaves prominently black punctate-lineate; bracts subulate, bracteoles and calyx lobes longer than wide, apery, apex acute.

upper bracteoles greenish white, flattened, orbicular to broadly elliptic, shorter than perianth.

bracts and bracteoles several, oblong or lanceolate, margins membranous, usually reflexed.

Bract keeled; bracteoles distinct; inflorescences of spikes, flowers sunken into rachis.

anthers oblong. Female inflorescences crowded in apical leaf axils among leaflike bracts and bracteoles.

Bracteoles linear-lanceolate, margin narrow, tinged brown, apex pinnatifid.

bracteoles broadly ovate to ovate-deltoid, margin sparsely denticulate or sometimes ciliate.

bracteoles numerous. Calyx teeth prominent, lanceolate, nearly as long as stylopodium.

pedicels slightly or not exceeding leaves, slender, puberulous or subglabrous, 2-bracteolate at or slightly below middle; bracteoles linear.

Bracteoles much shorter than bracts; leaves lanceolate, apex acute, usually falcate.

Bracts and bracteoles membranous, persistent or bracteoles falling off with perianth in fruit.

rays numerous; bracts and bracteoles several, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate.

Bracteoles without crest; filaments united at base, lateral appendages absent.

Bracteoles and sepals lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, apex long acuminate.

Rays up to 6 cm, unequal; bracteoles apex pinnate.

bracteoles pink, lanceolate, equaling to surpassing floral tube.

Leaf blade rhombic-ovate, broadly cuneate at base, abaxially veins convex, pedicels, bracteoles, and carpels pubescent.

The pedicels in fruit appear to be articulated because of the scars left by the bracteoles.

Stems, abaxial leaf surface, bracteoles, and outer part of calyces villous.

bracteoles opposite, deltoid, attached to median part of pedicel.

bracts and bracteoles elliptic, smaller than flowers, margin entire or serrate.

Stems and leaf sheaths green, rays very unequal; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, shorter than the pedicels.

Inflorescence a terminal spike; bracts and bracteoles present.

Fruit a utricle, dry or fleshy, often surrounded by persistent bracteoles and perianth.

Leaf blade narrowly ovate, rounded at base, abaxially veins not convex, pedicels, bracteoles, and carpels glabrous.

Male flowers solitary in axil of each bract, with 2-4 bracteoles or not.

bracteoles minute, linear, early deciduous.

those in cauline leaf axils fruiting, pedicels short, with bracteoles at or below middle.

Bracteoles 2 or rarely more, caducous or persistent, sometimes clearly differentiated from sepals.

Young twigs, pedicels, bracts, and bracteoles densely puberulous; leaf blade glabrous on both surfaces.

Calyx cup-shaped, lobes 5, slightly shorter than bracteoles, stellate puberulent, caducous.

bracteoles 2, linear-spatulate, ca. as long as ovary, soon caducous, disk and stamens as in male but stamens sterile.

bracteoles absent. Flowers male or bisexual, open before leaves.

Calyx teeth projected, 2 anterior shorter, tube sparsely hairy at base; bracteoles spreading hairy.

upper bracteoles tepaloid, convex or boat-shaped, often keeled abaxially, sometimes narrowly winged, rarely broadly winged.

Bracteoles linear, lacerate.

6 (5) Plants usually stemless, less than 15 cm tall, unbranched; bracteoles linear to long-obovate, entire to pinnatifid.

pedicels not or slightly exceeding leaves, 2-bracteolate at or above middle; bracteoles linear.

Leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, apex caudate; bracteoles spiny, 2-parted at base; pseudostaminode serrulate at apex.

Bracteoles at distal part or at apex of pedicels, leaflike or lanceolate.

Capsule ovoid, ca. 7 mm, apex obtuse, enclosed by persistent sepals and bracteoles, dehiscent.

bracteoles cymbiform-ovate or narrowly ovate. Fl. Feb.

Leaflets coarsely toothed or crenate-dentate; bracteoles shorter than flowers; fruit sparsely puberulent (widespread in China).

Bracts and bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 1-veined. Calyx teeth linear, as long as to slightly longer than calyx tube. Nutlets smooth.

bracteoles oblong or cymbiform-oblong.

pedicels long, 2-bracteolate above middle; bracteoles linear.

pedicels usually exceeding leaves, slender, puberulous, with 2 linear bracteoles above middle or near flower.

Petiole ca. 10 mm, glabrous; bracteoles and sepals grayish white velutinous.

Leaves regularly crenate; bracteoles ca. 1 mm broad; seed face slightly concave.

bracteoles spiny, shorter than calyx, ca. 5 mm, appressed puberulent.

Bracteoles 2, persistent, inserted on apical portion of pedicel.

Bracteoles lanceolate, as long as sepals.

bracteoles linear. Achenes ellipsoid, 6-ribbed.

Flowers bisexual, arising from axils of bracts, small, often subtended by 1 cupular or rarely 3 nearly free bracteoles.

bracteoles light red, tubular, ca. 1 cm, glabrous, apex emarginate.

Bracteoles absent. Calyx lobed to near base.

Plants usually with long stems more than 15 cm tall, branched above; bracteoles linear, entire to 3-toothed.

bracteoles distal, lanceolate to lanceolate-linear, 8--10 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose.

Bracteoles and sepals velutinous but glabrescent. Ovary tomentose or glabrous near apex. Capsule 6-8 cm in diam.

bracteoles subtending pedicels few, minute, linear, ca. 1 mm.

Bracteoles forming a cup just below flower.

bracteoles red-brown, 3--4 cm, slightly hairy, soon glabrescent, apex rounded toothed, ciliate.

Bracts persistent, ovate, ca. 2. 6 mm, bracteoles equaling bracts, falling off with perianth in fruit.

Flowers hermaphroditic, with 1 bract and 2 bracteoles, axillary or clustered into spikes.

bracteoles absent. Flowers usually 5-merous.

Leaf blade apex obtuse to shortly acute; bracteoles linear, ca. 1 mm wide.

bracteoles 2, at middle of pedicel, alternate, awl-shaped.

bracteoles purplish red with brownish apex, tubular, ca. 3 cm.

Calyx pale red with white base, equaling bracteoles, apex 2-cleft.

bracteoles 2, small, subulate or nearly bristly.

Bracteoles and sepals glabrous; fruit yellowish green; capsule pericarp ca. 1. 5 mm thick.

5 (4) Rays up to 4 cm, equal; bracteoles entire.

Leaf blade veins adaxially deeply impressed, surface rugose; bracteoles and sepals 12-17, inside velutinous.

bracteoles 2, below middle, ovate-deltoid.

rays unequal; bracteoles 5, similar to bracts.

Leaf blade margin densely apiculately serrulate; bracteoles and sepals 8-10, caducous after anthesis.

Pedicel 1-3 cm, with 1 pair of stipulelike bracteoles at base.

Bracteoles oblong, nerves 3, dark; vitta solitary in each furrow, 2 on commissure.

Bracteoles 2, linear, ca. 5 mm, glandular puberulent, base adherent to calyx tube.

pedicels produced from base of stem or cauline leaf axils, 6-11 cm, much exceeding leaves, with 2 linear bracteoles above middle.

Distal pedicels 5--12 mm; bracteoles linear; petaline spur nearly equal to lip in length.

Trees to 40 m high, rarely less than 8 m, without spines; bracteoles and perianth without glands; mature syncarp (3-)5-15 or more cm.

Pedicel 3--10 cm, pubescent, lateral ones with small, paired bracteoles.

bracteoles funnelform, 3--4 mm, apex obliquely truncate.

bracteoles distal, narrowly lanceolate-linear, 5--9 mm.

bracteoles caducous. Flowers ca. 5. 5 mm in diam. , yellowish white.

bracteoles semiorbicular, connate, ca. 1 mm.

bracteoles borne proximally or near middle of pedicel, linear, 5--8 mm.

Bracteoles 2, linear-lanceolate, herbaceous, margin entire or sometimes 1- or 2-toothed.

Bracts and bracteoles persistent, greenish white or yellowish white, ovate, 1-1. 5 mm, glabrous.

bracteoles ca. 2 cm, membranous.

Midvein of bracteoles spiny, long excurrent; an herb or a shrub.

bracteoles ca. 3 cm. Calyx white with red base and apex, ca. 1 cm, sparsely hairy.

inner 4 bracteoles and sepals suborbicular, 4-6 mm in diam. , subleathery, glabrous, margin membranous and ciliolate.

bracteoles white with red apex, tubular, ca. 3. 5 cm. Flowers white.

bracteoles median, ovate, ca. 2 mm.

bracteoles lanceolate, ca. 2 mm. Tepals white, shiny, oblong, 5-6 mm, glabrous, apex acute.

bracteoles pink, narrowly oblong, plicate, ca. 3. 2 cm.

bracteoles 2, basal, ovate-deltoid, glabrous, ca. 1 mm.

each flower with 1 bract and 2 bracteoles, scarious.

bracteoles subulate with 1(or 2) lateral lobes.

bracteoles usually leaflike, 1--2. 2 cm, distal ones narrowly linear.

Bract and bracteoles suborbicular, ca. 2 mm, shorter than calyx; mature bud 4-5 cm.

bracteoles spiny, ca. 1 mm.

Pedicels ca. 2. 5 cm, spreading pubescent, with 2 bracteoles at middle.

Bracteoles linear, 5-9 mm, adnate to base of calyx.

rachis very short or absent. Bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, 1-2 mm, abaxially white lanose.

bracteoles absent. Calyx tubular, split on 1 side, apex 2- or 3-toothed.

outer 2-5(or 6) bracteoles and sepals caducous after anthesis.

Pedicels 1--4 cm, with 2 bracteoles below middle of pedicels.

Pedicels 3-6 cm, glabrous, with 2 ciliate bracteoles about the middle.

bracteoles to 1. 5 mm, pubescent.

bracteoles leaflike, leathery, ovate and 2-3 mm when young, later lanceolate and 8-10 mm.

4 (3) Current year branchlets, bracteoles, and outside of sepals glabrous; styles 3-5, distinct nearly to base.

bracteoles oblong-triangular, 3. 5--4 cm, apex 3-toothed, teeth rounded.

inner 5 bracteoles and sepals sepaloid, suborbicular, 6-10(-12) mm.

bracteoles reddish with brownish apex, ca. 1. 7 cm, apex 2- or 3-toothed.

bracts and bracteoles 1. 5-3 cm, lacking spinulose hairs.

Bracteoles 2, 1. 5-3. 5 mm, margin entire or sparsely serrate, apex acute.

Flowers bisexual, often in clusters of 2--4, sometimes solitary, small, subtended by a bract and a few bracteoles;

Female flowers subtended by a small, entire bract, adnate to bracteoles and virtually submerged in wing complex;

bracts and bracteoles several, similar to leaves but more cartilaginous, apex subulate, persistent;

bracteoles sepal-like, forming a secondary calyx (calycle) immediately below calyx;

bracteoles several, lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, entire;

Female flowers: bracteoles mostly serrate or somewhat pectinate-toothed at margin;

pedicel persistent, articulated below the perianth, apex with 2 pairs of decussate bracteoles adnate to the perianth;

bracteoles linear. Female inflorescences solitary, ca. 3 mm in diam. , sessile; receptacle small;

Flowers often solitary, subtended by a scarious bract and enclosed at base by 2 short bracteoles;

Bracteoles small, lunate, semiorbicular, or broadly ovate;

Female flowers: bracteoles and sepals similar to those of male flower;

rays unequal; bracteoles absent or few;

bracteoles ca. 10, broadly lanceolate, ca. 1 cm, entire or apex pinnate, green with narrow white margin;

bracteoles lanceolate, ca. 1 mm, pubescent;

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

bracteoles distal, linear, 9--10 mm. Sepals purple-blue, abaxially sparsely yellowish puberulent near apex;

bracteoles narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 3-4 mm, glabrous, often ciliate at tip;

Male flowers mostly with 2 bracteoles;

bracteoles subulate or narrowly linear, 3--5 mm. Sepals deep purple-blue, abaxially glabrous;

bracteoles borne at various points on pedicel, usually linear, 1--1. 2 cm. Sepals blue-purple, abaxially puberulent;

Proximal pedicels to 2 cm, to 4 cm at fruiting, distal ones shorter, with 2 bracteoles at middle;

bracteoles 2, at base of floral tube;

bracteoles distal, narrowly oblong or spatulate-oblong, 0. 9--1. 1 cm. Sepals persistent, blue-purple, abaxially sparsely puberulent;

pedicels 2-3 mm, with bracteoles below middle;

Pedicels 1--3. 5 cm, retrorse white and spreading yellowish pubescent, with 2 bracteoles at middle or above;

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones linear, ca. 8 mm. Pedicels 2--4 cm, with 2 bracteoles at middle or below;

Pedicels 1. 2--5 cm, oblique upward, apex slightly curved, with 2 bracteoles below middle or nearly to base;

Pedicels oblique upward, 3--6 cm, with 2 bracteoles above middle;

Pedicels 2--5 cm, suberect upward, with 2 bracteoles at middle or above;

Pedicel upward curved, 3--11 cm, distally with 2 bracteoles;

Pedicels 3. 5--8 cm, distally spreading pubescent, with 2 bracteoles below middle;

Pedicels 2--5. 5 cm, densely spreading pubescent, with 2 bracteoles near middle or above;

Pedicels decurved, to 3. 8 cm, with 2 bracteoles at middle or below;

bracteoles distal, linear or narrowly so, 0. 5--1. 8 cm. Sepals blue-purple, abaxially densely appressed puberulent;

Pedicels 2--6. 4 cm, sparsely spreading pubescent, with 2 bracteoles at middle or above;

proximal bracteoles leaflike, 2. 5--3 cm, distal ones linear, to 1 cm. Sepals blue-purple;

bracteoles subulate, 7. 5--9. 5 mm. Sepals blue or white, abaxially sparsely glandular puberulent;

Pedicels 1--3 cm, with 2 bracteoles at middle or above;

Pedicels ca. 2. 2 cm, with 2 bracteoles at middle;

Pedicels 0. 6--2. 5 cm, distally pale brown spreading pubescent, with 2 bracteoles at middle or above;

Pedicels 1. 5--3. 5 cm, proximally densely pubescent, apically sparsely so, with 2 bracteoles at middle or above;

Proximal pedicels 5--12 mm, distal ones 2--4 mm, with 2 bracteoles at middle or at base;

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones linear, ca. 8 mm. Pedicels 0. 5--1. 5 cm, with 2 bracteoles above base;