bract

Seeds detached from bracts, with a lateral wing on 1 side and a small protrusion (occasionally developed into a wing) on other.

Specifically, summer flowers - may bracts susceptible to wind down, the summer sun too hot, is often darken.

These will last a great length of time. The dried bracts are additionally useful in floral arrangements for lasting beauty.

Scape simple or few branched, longer than leaves, proximally with a few sterile bracts, terminating in a lax raceme.

Leaves entire, or with a pair of obtuse lobes near base; fruiting bracts cordate to sagittate, appendage a 3-parted process.

The scales or bracts borne on the receptacle among the small, individual flowers of many plants in the composite family.

Dew no longer causes the bracts to open after the inflorescences have been exposed to rain or have imbibed water over long periods.

Scape erect, simple, longer than leaves, bearing a few sterile bracts and a terminal raceme.

bracts ovate, ca. 1 mm, caducous, each commonly with a pair of flowers or dichasia in axil.

Ovaries inferior, coalescing and with bracts and rachis forming a compound, fleshy fruit (syncarp).

rachis glabrous; bracts to 2 mm, soon caducous, basal ones often sterile and with a tridentate apex.

any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts.

bracts mound-shaped, arranged in disconnected rings, sparsely puberulent, covered with waxy scalelike trichomes.

bracts broadly ovate or triangular, ca. 1 mm, abaxially semiappressed hairy, or at least with a hairy median band.

Inflorescence racemose or paniculate, terminal ones slender, glabrous, subtended by persistent, gradually enlarged bracts.

involucral bracts triangular-ovate, densely covered with long pubescence, persistent.

Inflorescence erect, scapose, strobiliform, apex with a tuft of sterile, leafy bracts.

Bracts lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, caducous at anthesis; ovary often glabrous; drupe compressed globose to transversely shortly oblong.

One of the most popular plants at Christmas is the poinsettia. These plants are valued for their colorful bracts , which look like leaves.

bracts oblong lanceolate, membranous, outside sparsely pubescent, margin glandular serrate.

bracts brownish to greenish brown, suborbicular, papery, persistent or caducous after anthesis, margin glandular serrate.

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

bracts greenish brown, margin serrate, teeth with a stalked conical apical gland.

Bracts obviously longer than seed scales, apex acuminate, with a lanceolate cusp.

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

Herbs annual; bracts of female flowers connate to apex, both sides with an acicular appendage near apex.

bracts circular to rhombic-ovate, oblanceolate, apex caudate-mucronate, shorter to slightly longer than flowers, bright colored.

bracts black or brownish yellow proximally, elliptic or ovate, villous, often glabrescent distally, apex shortly acuminate or acute.

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

Leaf blade glabrous or with sparse short pubescence. Figs oblong to pillow-shaped, glabrous; involucral bracts orbicular. Fl. early summer.

Inflorescences terminal, capitate, globose, many flowered, with involucre of green leaflike bracts.

Cymes terminal, conical; bracts lanceolate, herbaceous, ciliate, apex acuminate.

bracts spirally arranged or basal ones united into concentric rings, triangular, small, appressed, tawny tomentose.

In very old inflorescence, however, from which the achenes have already dispersed, the mechanism no longer works and the bracts are shed.

Bracts lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, apex long acuminate, shorter than calyx. Corolla tube without hairy annulus inside.

Leaves irregularly and doubly incised-serrate at margin; middle lobe of bracts lanceolate or falcate-lanceolate, apex acuminate.

The 'flowers' are actually double rosettes composed of masses of green bracts that give the young blooms their distinctive colour.

Inflorescence developing from mixed buds also producing leaves, without persistent bracts at base; plants armed or unarmed.

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

emergent leaves smaller, sometimes uppermost ones undivided, reducing to bracts of inflorescence.

bracts brown, rarely greenish brown, usually soon caducous, rarely persistent in fruit, margin glandular serrate.

involucral bracts broadly ovate, densely covered with golden yellow thick hairs.

Spikes terminal; bracts conspicuously larger than leaves, pubescence as on leaves, marginal teeth acute to acuminate.

bracts narrowly ovate, sometimes slightly sickle-shaped, narrower than or as wide as utricle, margin narrowly membranous.

Bracts narrowly elliptic or obovate-lanceolate, (20-)25-26 mm, constricted into a stipe at base; female inflorescence loosely racemose.

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

Plants reddish or yellowish green; lower branches prostrate; bracts erect, upper ones shorter than subtended flower.

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

bracts broadly ovate or triangular, ca. 2 mm, abaxially hairy, at least along median line.

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

Flowers bisexual, arising from axils of small bracts, erect, small, often subtended by a bracteole.

Perennial herbs, unarmed or prickly; inflorescences developing from mixed buds also producing leaves, basally without persistent bracts.

bracts enveloping inflorescence axis, membranous.

tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts ; stems malodorous when crushed.

Racemes terminal; bracts alternate, much smaller than leaves, margin sparsely deltoid dentate.

bracts lanceolate, margin undulate, membranous, apex acuminate.

bracts present or absent, when present herbaceous, membranous, or scarious, persistent or caducous.

Leaves alternate, leaf blade oblanceolate to linear; fruiting bracts without appendages.

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

Inflorescences usually with conspicuous bracts; flowers solitary to several in short racemes or corymbs.

peduncle long, with 2 small bracts at apex, bracts appearing to be mid peduncle in solitary-flowered species.

Inflorescence a head subtended by 2 opposite, inequilateral bracts, flowering in a centrifugal sequence.

distal bracts narrow, membranous, others herbaceous, usually shorter than pedicel, densely ciliate, subglabrous on both surfaces.

The outer or lower of the two bracts that enclose the flower in a grass spikelet.

Spikes terminal; bracts similar to leaves in shape and size, slightly wider, sparsely to rarely densely glandular hairy.

Inflorescences terminal, spicate or capitate, elongated in fruit; bracts obovate.

Inflorescence a terminal raceme, usually many flowered; bracts small, membranous.

Leaves alternate. Inflorescences from persistent scaly bracts.

Bracts entire at apex; young leaf blade gland-tipped or dentate only distally, elliptic to broadly elliptic and serrate in fruit.

bracts broadly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, leaflike, usually longer than pedicel.

Leaf apex acute, shortly acuminate, or obtuse. Bracts acute or obtuse. Female flower: ovary shortly stipitate.

seed scales adnate with bracts in basal, seed-bearing part, detached in apical part, sometimes thickened and exposed.

bracts caducous, narrowly ovate-elliptic or narrowly elliptic, pubescent at apex, ciliate.

Bracts broadly lanceolate, membranous, apex acuminate.

Plants dioecious; bracts elliptic; male flowers distinctly stalked.

Inflorescences scapose, umbellate, with bracts.

Bracts ovate, glabrous, margin sparsely glandular granulose, apex obtuse.

Bracts tomentose, with faint ribs, divided into triangular-lanceolate lobes, usually not forked at apex.

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.

basal bracts united into concentric rings, triangular, apical ones reduced to a subulate tip or a wartlike appendage, small and obscure.

bracts deciduous, leaflike, gradually reduced in successive nodes.

male ones cymose or umbellate; bracts absent. Flowers unisexual (plants dioecious).

lower bracts leaflike, gradually reduced upward, broadly ovate, shorter than calyx.

Stems, leaves, bracts, and calyx lobes densely with brown multicellular glandular hairs.

PLA1 is expressed in developing leaf primordia, bracts of the panicle, and elongating internodes, but not in the shoot apical meristem.

Inflorescences without leaflike bracts.

bracts early deciduous, petiolate, margin entire, rarely longer than flowers.

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

bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, margin glandular serrate or incised, apex acuminate or caudate.

glumes often poorly differentiated from accompanying bracts in bamboos.

rachis glabrous; proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones narrowly oblong.

bracts dull brown, sub rectangular both surfaces, downy, base subtruncate, or rounded-truncate, margin glandular dentate.

bracts dull purplish brown when dried, ovate or obovate, proximally downy on both surfaces, apex retuse.

This new species is assigned to E. sect. Ephedra in that the bracts of female cones become fleshy at maturity.

bracts absent. Flowers radially symmetric, bisexual.

bracts densely arranged, flabellate, apex thickened.

bracts fused with cupule and reduced to scars or triangular, irregularly multilateral.

Bracts glabrous, sparsely long ciliate. Female flower: ovary glabrous.

Fruit partly immersed in fleshy receptacle, fleshy, bracts persistent.

Inflorescences terminal or axillary, elongate racemelike thyrses, unbranched [rarely branched]; bracts 2-glandular [or glandular].

Outer leaves deep reddish brown when dry, not scarious; bracts elliptic to oblong, longer than pedicel.

Shrubs or small trees, reportedly dioecious, young shoots with a perular bud, perular bracts persistent.

Raceme sometimes few branched and paniculate, several to many flowered; bracts very small.

Bracts of seed cones almost completely free, connate only at base, light brown and membranous at maturity.

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones elliptic or lanceolate to narrowly linear.

Inflorescence bracts spirally arranged, overlapped at base of flower.

Leaf blade base usually attenuate; male flower with adaxial gland ca. as long as bracts, abaxial gland absent.

Male flowers: subsessile, zygomorphic, subtended by two slender rudimentary or indistinct bracts.

bracts often inconspicuous, sometimes forming calyxlike involucre, or large and brightly colored.

branchlets rust-brown puberulent, glabrescent on older branches, with gray-white lenticels and persistent bracts.

Bracts ovate-lanceolate. Lateral lobes of lower lip of corolla circular, apex emarginate.

Flowers usually foetid, bisexual or polygamous, without bracts.

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones broadly lanceolate.

proximal bracts sometimes leaflike, distal ones small, linear or subulate.

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

Male flowers: pedicellate or sessile, subtended by U-shaped or variously reduced bracts.

bracts ovate, smaller than stipules, sharply serrate, rarely entire.

Outer leaves whitish, scarious when dry; bracts ovate to ovate-oblong, shorter than pedicel.

Leaf blade ovate, oblong, or rarely obovate, dark green or brownish when dry; bracts lanceolate.

bracts green, funnel-shaped, not ciliate, glabrous, often with few glandular hairs.

bracts reduced and united into concentric rings, with tawny, waxy scalelike glands.

Leaves sparsely glandular; calyx and bracts green, puberulent.

Inflorescence a terminal spike; bracts and bracteoles present.

Leaves less densely arranged, longer, especially on shaded branchlets; bracts of seed cones exserted with much longer cusps.

floral bracts ovate to linear-oblanceolate, glabrescent.

Racemes terminal; bracts caducous. Hypanthium campanulate. Sepals 5, margin entire.

bracts small, soon caducous, very rarely persistent after anthesis.

fertile bracts pale green or pale brown, membranous, margin white, fimbriate.

bracts smaller than involucres, membranous.

Stems, leaves, bracts, and sepals white nodose hairy and shortly glandular hairy.

Current cultivars with pink bracts green spot cutting-edge, but have fundamental.

lateral bracts absent; apical bracts radially arranged.

Bracts broadly ovate, glabrous, sparsely ciliate.

rachis glabrous; bracts greenish brown, lacerate.

bracts broadly ovate, acute, slightly puberulent.

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

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones navicular-oblong or obovate.

bracts lanceolate, white pubescent, with small, white tomentose bud in axil.

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

bracts black, ovate, densely long gray pubescent, apex acute or slightly obtuse.

rachis glabrous; bracts russet, palmately laciniate, glabrous.

Rhizome ca. 3 mm thick with scales; scales sparsely strigose, congested; bracts lanceolate, apex pubescent.

Branchlets pubescent and sparsely hirsute when young; female bracts fan-shaped, denticulate.

Shrubs scandent, glandular granulose on branchlets, bracts, sepals bases, and petals inside.

bracts usually fugacious and minute, rarely persistent and large.

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones ovate-lanceolate or oblong.

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones narrowly linear.

bracts of inflorescences like foliage leaves or smaller and different in shape.

bracts leaflike in shape, margin often with pointed or setose teeth, rarely entire.

bracts narrowly fasciated, nearly equaling sepals, glabrous or abaxially pilose.

An Indian plant(Curcuma zedoaria)having yellow flowers, purple bracts, and starchy tuberous rhizomes.

bracts obovate, glabrous or sparsely ciliate, apex obtuse or sub truncate.

bracts small, membranous, apex acute to filiform acuminate.

Flowers solitary, several in a loose cyme, or numerous and clustered into capitula, subtended by 1--4 pairs of appressed bracts.

Inflorescence axis, bracts, and calyx without deep purple hairs.

bracts loosely overlapping, sub circular, ca. 3 mm, bright colored, softly dense ciliate, apex mucronate.

Family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal leaves like bracts and small flowers .

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

Bracts oblong, apex rounded, without glandular teeth.

bracts caducous; flowers articulate below calyx tube.

bracts lanceolate, margin and midvein sparsely hirtellous, apex long acuminate.

bracts linear. Flowers white, pink, or purple, simple or double petalous.

Rhizomes and coma bracts white; labellum white with central, yellow band.

bracts caducous, lanceolate, small.

Leaves basal and cauline, pinnate, ultimate segments coarsely dentate; bracts 1 or absent; petals white.

The shape, size, and pubescence of the leaves and bracts is variable.

Pedicels equaling bracts, articulate at middle.

Flowers in axillary glomerules, sessile, with linear bracts at base.

Bracts like foliage leaves or distinctly smaller on axillary spikes.

bracts similar to leaves, becoming smaller toward apex of cincinnus.

others bracts yellowish, broadly ovate, shorter than head.

bracts oblong-lanceolate, nearly as long as stipules, with few teeth along margin.

Corolla club-shaped, lobes apiculate; bracts longer than calyx.

The 4-ranked bracts in the protologue are an artifact of the immature state of the type collection.

Flowers hermaphroditic, solitary in axils of bracts.

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones small, linear.

bracts oblanceolate to obovate, smaller than leaves.

Female flowers without evident perianth; bracts of female flowers 3-lobed, lateral lobes inflexed.

bracts immediately subtending calyx absent. Sepals 5, free, green, margin scarious.

Herbs annual; leaves and bracts with a long spine at apex.

leaf blade leathery. Bracts conspicuous at peduncle base.

Bracts leaflike, longer than calyx, shorter than flowers.

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones linear or subulate.

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones linear or filiform.

In the grasses bracts are borne in pairs below the spikelets and are called glumes.

lower bracts resembling small leaves, upper bracts linear, lanceolate, or narrowly oblanceolate, 2-3 mm, glabrous except for ciliate margin.

bracts purple or purple-blue, elliptic, pinnatipartite, apex somewhat obtuse.

involucral bracts cup like. Male, gall, and female flowers within same fig.

bracts obovate-oblong, both surfaces glabrous or slightly villous at base, apex subtruncate.

Bracts reflexed, cusp narrowly triangular, ca. 3 mm, lateral lobes triangular, margin erose.

Floral bracts elliptic, early deciduous.

Flowers zygomorphic, small, with bracts.

This these plants are valued for its their colorful bracts which look like leaves.

bracts broadly or narrowly membranous along margin.

Fruiting bracts ovate-lanceolate to subcordate, scarcely furfuraceous, margins united only basally.

bractlets lanceolate, shorter than or equaling bracts, longer than perianth.

Bracts oblong, apex truncate; branchlets yellowish or yellowish brown.

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones linear.

Leaf blade broadly ovate to elliptic, dark brown when dry; bracts awl-shaped.

The dry bracts enclosing mature grains of wheat and some other cereal grasses, removed during threshing.

Stamens shorter than perianth; bracts ca. as long as or shorter than perianth.

bracts oblong ovate, pilose at base, apex rounded, obtuse, or retuse.

bracts ovate-deltoid, longer than wide, spurred, apex acute.

female catkin upright or ascending; bracts entire.

apex of bracts triangular, flattened, acute, up curved.

floral bracts blackish, oblong to obovate, abaxially white clavate hairy toward apex.

Corolla pale blue or pale violet on upper part, rarely pale yellow, upper lip 2-lobed; bracts shorter than flowers.

bracts small, caducous after flowering.

bracts caducous, smaller than stipules.

The plain out, including the unloading bracts enchanting charming, WeiRui blade.

bracts circa 6 mm, ciliate, 3-lobed, middle lobe oblong, lateral lobes slightly spreading, elliptic, slightly shorter than middle lobe.

Pedicels bracteate above middle; bracts caducous, ovate, 3-4 mm, margin nearly entire or denticulate, apex long aristate-acuminate.

The contribution to seeds from Stem and sheath was larger than leaf and bracts.

bracts spine like, to 5 mm, several connate into bundles from middle or apical part, sometimes cristate.

proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones small, subfiliform.

Bracts and bractlets similar, proximal margin membranous.

Pedicel shorter than bracts; umbels compact, subcapitate.

Female inflorescences pear-shaped, 1-flowered, covered by numerous bracts.

Flowers solitary or forming a spike, sessile, without bracts or bractlets, bisexual.

Winter buds ovoid, bracts ovate, outside with short soft hairs.

bracts linear. Pedicel glabrous. Calyx cup-shaped, ca. 1 mm, truncate to sub truncate, glabrous.

a series of bracts subtending and resembling a calyx, as in the carnation and Hibiscus.

rachis glabrous; proximal bracts 3-parted, distal ones undivided, oblong or linear.

bracts obovate to rhombic-obovate, slightly shorter than calyx, margin densely ciliate, finely spinescent or with 1-3 serrate teeth.

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

floral bracts obovate, abaxially densely white clavate hairy toward apex.

Inflorescences glabrous; bracts broadly ovate, ca. 2 cm, glabrous, apex acute.

Leaflet blade apex truncate to sub truncate, lobe apices subacute; bracts near base of flower; capsule long conical, more than 2. 5 cm.

bracts ovate or flabellate to minute, narrower than calyx.

Inflorescences axillary, rarely terminal, 1-3 cm. Bracts and calyx lobes linear-lanceolate to subulate, glabrous or ciliate.

stigma 2-lobed, only adaxial gland present, terete, ca. as long as ovary (excluding style) bracts. Fl. Jun.

bracts ca. as long as lower leaves, membranous, apex acuminate.

Male flowers: clustered basally on inflorescence, ca. 3 mm in diam. , pedicellate, subtended by rudimentary bracts.

Pedicel shorter than to sometimes ca. as long as bracts.

Flowers and bracts fused laterally to form a syncarp.

bracts as in male catkin but wholly or partly caducous in fruit.

Stipules very small or absent. Bracts glandular.

Middle lobe of bracts oblong or falcate-oblong, apex obtuse or acute.

Leaf blade abaxially pubescent along midvein. Bracts ovate-oblong or ovate, both surfaces pilose or glabrous distally.

bracts numerous, overlapping, leathery, deciduous, apex deeply 3-lobed, each bract subtending 3 flowers.

bracts reddish brown, linear-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, grayish pilose, apex reflexed.

Flowers in axillary clusters, with 2 bracts at base, male in proximal axils, female in distal axils.

Leaf blade slightly undulate or inconspicuously lobed; stipules and bracts to 2. 5 cm; sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate.

Seeds connate with bracts, sometimes with 2 apparent lateral wings formed from bract.

Pedicels articulate distal to bracts.

bracts shield-shaped, margin ciliate.

bracts scale-like, spirally arranged.

bracts leaflike, smaller than leaves.