Only in some varieties is the leafy bract (Fig. 72) to be found. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Union of the leaf or bract with the flower-stalk is not uncommon. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Spathaceous having a large bract enclosing a flower cluster, 104. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Fruiting spikelets enclosed in a stony nut-like polished bract 16. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The lower part of the bract forms a sheath which encloses the ovary. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Photographed in Mexico, the fishpole heliconia has bract clusters that dangle. From Wordnik.com. [Photographed in Mexico, the fishpole heliconia has bract clusters that dangle. © Linda Abbott Trapp 2008] Reference
Some varieties, such as the fishpole heliconia, have bract clusters that dangle. From Wordnik.com. [Coffee, swamp lily and heliconia: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico] Reference
The grain is orbicular, ventrally furrowed and enclosed by the polished hard bract. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
This species is easily recognized by the polished bract enclosing the female spikelet. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The fibrous inner bract is made into fiber for bags, mats, hats, and other personal articles. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
Bracteoles Small, usually scale-like bracts on or close to the calyx of a flower, above the bract. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
Except where it is terminal it arises, like the leaf-shoot, in the axil of a leaf, which is then known as a bract. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
The grain is orbicular, compressed, channelled at the back and enclosed within the stony, hardened and polished bract. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
It has, however, a very ample bract, which supports a large imbricate calyx, the members of which have stiff bristle-like hairs. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Another flower of the same plant bore on its pedicel a small leaf, which was doubtless the bract raised above its ordinary position. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The aments are usually 3-4 inches long with individual flowers consisting of 4 stamens with their surrounding bract and calyx lobes. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
Fertile flower showing bract and ovuliferous scale, outer side. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
The bract-base is decurrent, like the leaf-base of Picea fig. 6. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
The bract-base is non-decurrent, like the leaf-base of Abies fig. 5. 2. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
The 10-inch spike surrounded by a boat-shaped white bract is spectacular. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
The perianth tube can grow 15 to 20mm long and the lower bract forms a blade. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The base of the bract subtending the leaf-fascicle, non-decurrent or decurrent. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
The primary leaf -- appearing as a scale or bract throughout the life of the tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
The close up shot of the berries shows their striking navy blue color with the red bract. From Wordnik.com. [Ledge and Gardens] Reference
The upper leaves are narrow and bract-like; those lower down gradually widen as they approach the root. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
A small, smooth nut, enclosed in the distended bract; the aggregated fruit resembling a cluster of hops. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Flowers compound in axillary spikes, which bear the flowerets in 2 ranks, each flower with a keeled bract. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Well, we put ourselves in again bract ourselves in a corner that we have to do at JV is the way to answer that. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
This bract has attracted a good deal of attention, and for a long time everybody wondered what could be its use. From Wordnik.com. [Seed Dispersal] Reference
This bract, when dead, is bent near the middle and more or less twisted, with the edges curving toward the cluster of nuts. From Wordnik.com. [Seed Dispersal] Reference
Lance-shaped, 3 to 5 in. long, sheathing the stem at base; upper leaves in a spathe-like bract folding like a hood about flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
In contrast to its showy flowers, the fruit of the Bird of Paradise is pale and partially obscured by the bract during development. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
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