How To Use Bract In A Sentence

In the former, the flowers are monecious or perfect, consisting of imbricated solitary bracts. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
The most important differential characteristics of the section Trionychon are branched stems, bracteolate flowers, an entire and campanulated calyx, a blue or purple corolla, white anthers, and the stigma usually white.
The floral meristems are formed acropetally and are initiated on the periphery of the inflorescence meristem, being protected by bracts.
Buds in the axils of the bracts expanded and repeated the pattern; each had a prophyll that remained in the bract axil, a long internode, then a succession of leaves with shorter internodes and a terminal spikelet.
The calyx, the subtending bracts and the two prophylls bear groups of extrafloral nectaries (single peltate trichomes).

A broad investigation was initiated into the floral development of 30 taxa out of 15 tribes, focussing on the initiation of bracteoles and on the sequence of sepal initiation.
Members of Atripliceae are characterized by flowers that are usually unisexual, with a perianth present in staminate flowers, and with pistillate flowers lacking a perianth but having accrescent bracteoles in fruit.
Mature flowers are scarlet without clear differentiation between bracteoles, sepals or petals.
Several other plants had flowers borne on pedicels about three cm. long and petiolate bracts, the bracts being about as long as the pedicels.
It has white flowers in a whorled, bracteate raceme, no spathe, roots with tubers.
The racemes consist of many male spikelets with one (rarely two) female spikelets at the base; the rachis is stout above, and the part within the bract enclosing the female spikelet is slender. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The summer-shoot may be recognized, during growth, by its green, not scarious bracts and, at the end of the season, by the imperfect growth of its wood and foliage (fig. 14). The Genus Pinus
What we think are flowers are actually brightly hued leaf bracts.
The pauciflorous capitulum consists of outer female florets with short ligules, inner hermaphrodite florets without a pappus, and five outer involucral bracts, up to 2 cm long, possessing long-stalked glandular hairs.
Dehiscent fruits separate along the zone of dehiscence, the utricle cap (with the stigmas) falling free with the seed, the basal portion remaining on the inflorescence with attendant bracts and sepals.
Each module of a sympodium consists of an axis bearing two bracts and terminating in a flower.
And yet the name linden was writ large on those trees, -- on the beautiful gray bark, the alternate method of twig arrangement, the fat red winter buds, which shone in the sunshine like rubies, and especially on the little cymes of pendulous, pea-like fruit, each cyme attached to its membranaceous bract or wing. Some Winter Days in Iowa
This, in turn was surrounded by several whorls of bracts that many homologize with petals and sepals in flowering plants.
Identification of most caterpillars was problematic so ecological groupings were used to create five subgroups: a bract-associated morphospecies, foliage-associated taxa, geometrids, and a lichen-associated morphospecies.
The long lasting floral bunches with sparkling waxy bracts in different shades of pink, and the yellow margined red corolla are best suited for cut flowers.
Racemes are rather loose and open, the flowers widely spaced on minutely bracteolate pedicels mostly 4-10 mm long.
Each fertile shoot is composed of two fused bracteoles, which surround the microsporophyll.
BRACHYLOENUS D. C., a kind of groundsel; MORGANIA FLORIBUND., loaded with purple blossoms, and a variety of HELICHRYSUM BRACTEATUM, somewhat different in the leaves from the usual state of the species. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
Flowers yellow, in racemes, with caducous bracts and bractlets. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
Capitulum bracts are spiny and coated with a dense white arachnoidal indumentum.
It is so common to observe on the same plant, flowers indifferently tetramerous, pentamerous, &c., that I need not give examples; but as numerical variations are comparatively rare when the parts are few, I may mention that, according to De Candolle, the flowers of Papaver bracteatum offer either two sepals with four petals (which is the common type with poppies), or three sepals with six petals. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
In one short-season variety, some farmers are selecting for tough outer glumes (the papery coat or bract around the seed) and long awns (the hair-like bristle growing out from the glume) which help protect the grains from birds, a major pest of early rice. 14. Saving seeds for planting
Within this petaloid perianth is a membranous one, together with a boat-shaped bracteolate body, entire. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Even though a continuum was observed between the ‘true’ leaves and bracts, for simplicity all primordia bearing an axillary flower were considered as a bract.
The analysis separates materials primarily based on bract to utricle length ratios and bract length followed by sepal number and utricle dehiscence.
If the poinsettia is already producing pollen, a portion of its useful display life has already passed and the bracts will begin to fade.
Flowers are generally borne solitarily in leaf axils or in inflorescences subtended by bracts, but some taxa are ebractate.
D. involucrata is renown for the large bracts, up to 30 centimeters (cm) long, that subtend the base of the inflorescence, giving the tree in flower a very striking appearance. Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests
And yet the name linden was writ large on those trees, -- on the beautiful gray bark, the alternate method of twig arrangement, the fat red winter buds, which shone in the sunshine like rubies, and especially on the little cymes of pendulous, pea-like fruit, each cyme attached to its membranaceous bract or wing. Some Winter Days in Iowa
Perennial scapose herbs with simple stems from short, stocky, horizontal rhizomes bearing a whorl of 3 net-veined, green or mottled, ovate-obovate or elliptical bracts, petiolate or sessile, flower solitary.
[Dr. Johnson again.] acorn ... the nut of the oak usu. seated in or surrounded by a hard woody cupule of indurated bracts. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2
Cut off any colored bracts and prune the poinsettia to about 5 to 7 inches.
Bract length was measured from the base of the bract to the apex of the midrib for both pistillate and staminate plants.
Instances of adhesion between different organs is seen under ordinary circumstances in the bract of the Lime tree, which adheres to the peduncle, also in _Neuropeltis_, while in _Erythrochiton hypophyllanthus_ the cymose peduncles are adherent to the under surface of the leaf. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Species of sections Musa and Rhodochlamys share common characteristics, possessing the same chromosome number and having bracts that are generally sulcate, glaucous and that become revolute on fading.
You need something a bit stronger for your garden, like the flower spikes from Salvia nemorosa ‘Superba’, with wonderfully intense lavender blue flowers issuing from purplish bracts, or some of the deep wine-red sidalceas.
Segmented pedicels that bear mature fruiting bracteoles are present in Obione moneta, whereas bracteoles are strongly adherent to the stem in 0. leucoclada.
To return to Bracton, it must be understood that the description of assigns as quasi heredes is not accidental. The Common Law
All flowers are subtended by a bract and two bracteoles.
The flower is protandrous and presents an unusual sophisticated morphology: the pistil has an umbrella shape with the stigma at the angles, tightly enclosed by the bracts, petaloid sepals and petals.
Mr. Darwin [573] has thrown out the suggestion that the cause for the appearance of double flowers may be sought for in some previous state of things, bringing about sterility or imperfect formation, or functional activity of the genitalia of the flower, and consequent compensatory increase of the petaline element, either in the form of an increased number of bracts, petals, &c., or in the substitution of petals for stamens and pistils, &c. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Male spikelets are 1 - to 2-flowered, subsessile, distichous, jointed on rigid peduncled spikes, which are collected in umbels and surrounded by spathaceous leafy bracts. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Grasses and bamboos are known to have large deposits of silica in the tissues of leaf blades and inflorescence bracts.
They look like crude, longish pine cones, with bracts clearly recognizable as modified leaves.
In addition to a terminal flower there may be several smaller lateral flowers in the axil of cupular bracts, each surrounded by its own small cupule.
This, in turn was surrounded by several whorls of bracts that many homologize with petals and sepals in flowering plants.
In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed. Representative Men
The Costa Rican material better concords with tribe Cheloneae sensu Thieret, characterized by bracteolate, cymose or racemose inflorescences and sterile posterior stamen filaments.
They are a variety of the preceding, but of smaller size and with the bracteate leaves dull red.
The genera of Atripliceae, as the tribe is traditionally defined, have flowers that are usually unisexual and enclosed by well-developed bracteoles.
Sterile catkins 3-4 inches long, slender, purplish-yellow; scales fringed: fertile catkins erect or suberect, sessile or nearly so, 1/2-1 inch long, oblong-cylindrical; bracts pubescent; lateral lobes wider than in _B. lutea. Handbook of the Trees of New England
A variety of interesting trees occurs in the hill woodlands of the Upper Marmelos and Middle Tapajós Rivers including the dwarf rubber tree, Hevea camporum, the elegant palm, Euterpe longibracteata, the enormous Huberodendron ingens, and rare monotypic Brachynema ramiflorum. Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
Each flower has a lemma (outer bract) and a palea (inner bract) at its base, and contains two lodicules and one pistil surrounded by three anthers.
However, over the course of the subsequent winter months, bracts and sepals become scarious, drying to a light brown. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Before working with gold bracteates, I practiced with shiny coins, though I did not have any gold ones.
Lateral view of young inflorescence with basipetal initiation of flowers in the axil of bracts.
There is a single persistent bract subtending each pedicel and the seeds are crescent shaped and ridged along the margins but not undulate or furfuraceous.
Cohesion of the bracts by their edges, so as to form a tubular involucre, or by their surfaces, so as to form a cupule, is not of uncommon occurrence, under natural conditions, and may be met with in plants which ordinarily do not exhibit this appearance. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Female spikelets are collected in large globose heads of stellately spreading very long rigid rod-like processes surrounded by shorter subulate bracts. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
He states that the verification of the occurrence of bracteoles could be useful, because there is a tendency to use ‘absent’ for ‘caducous’, which could lead to erroneous conclusions.
The high quality of the die-cutting places the bracteates in the ranks of the most important small works of Romanesque art.
In that plan, I raised tobacco taxes, I raise alcohol taxes, I raise the upper income tax bract on the largest and the highest 4 percent of all Californians. CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2003
The peduncles are typically subglabrous to hispidulose or glandular, nigrescent; bracteoles caducous.
The double involucrum, common to the genus, has its upper set of bracteoles rolled outward; they are of a brownish colour; the lower set are green and wheel-shaped during the period of a perfect ray, and they alternate with the upper ones. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
It is so common to observe on the same plant, flowers indifferently tetramerous, pentamerous, &c., that I need not give examples; but as numerical variations are comparatively rare when the parts are few, I may mention that, according to De Candolle, the flowers of Papaver bracteatum offer either two sepals with four petals (which is the common type with poppies), or three sepals with six petals. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
The stamens are a dusty yellow and each flower has a ruff of leafy bracts at its base.
Inflorescences consist of spiciform racemes with spathaceous bracts; rachis is jointed. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Bracton imagined a divinely appointed ruler deputed as ‘vicar of God’, who was subject to no earthly restraints beyond his own wisdom.
The family is characterized by various kinds of sclereids, hypophyllous glands and specific nectary bracts.
A bract is a modified leaf at the base of a flower, and is often more showy than the flower itself - the red bracts of poinsettias are another example. Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
Their counterparts are the more poetically named lacecaps, whose papery bracts (flower-like modified leaves) circle a mauve to pink head of minuscule flowers.
In tropical countries, the buds unguarded by bracts like our own are said to be much darker; and in arctic regions, the young leaves are also said to be of a darker color. Rural Hours
Major morphological differences in the family are found in the type of inflorescences, and the shape and position of the nectary bracts.
This is much simpler than those reproductive organs of living Gnetales with a cone-like inflorescence that is organized by paired or decussate bracts.
On examination of the ordinary inflorescence, there will be seen at the base of the upper of two flowers a small rudimentary bract, having a swollen circular or ring-like base, from which proceeds a small awl-shaped process, representing the midrib of an abortive leaf. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Species of sections Musa and Rhodochlamys share common characteristics, possessing the same chromosome number and having bracts that are generally sulcate, glaucous and that become revolute on fading.
Flowers emerge on terminal racemes and are subtended by small bracts.
As the pistil emerged from the bracts, the style elongated and the stigma expanded markedly in size and, finally, became receptive to pollen.
In the basal part of the floret, the mRNA label was very strong in the two distinctive bracts, lemma and palea, as well as in the base of the two lodicules and the pistil complex.
The inflorescence is a leafy panicle of many small spikes enclosed in spathiform bracts. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The whorls of bloom issue from half-globular arrangements of buds and persistent calyces; each flower is an inch long; corolla ringent, or gaping; helmet, or upper division, linear; the seed organs are longer; the calyx tubular, having five minute teeth, being striped and grooved; the whole head, or whorl, is supported by a leafy bract, the leaflets being of a pale green colour, tinted with red. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
Each disc flower is surrounded by a sharp-pointed, chaffy bract and consists of a basal inferior ovary, two pappus scales, and a tubular corolla.
Female inflorescences are terminal, solitary or in spikes, racemes or capitula, short, bracteate, with crowded flowers, often pendulous in fruit.
At the top of the stems there are tightly packed bracts of rich blues and purples surrounding clusters of purple-blue flowers in late spring and summer.
With reference to _Mussaenda_, C. Morren held the view that the petal-like sepal was really a bract adherent to the calyx, and incorporating with itself one of the calycine lobes -- "soudée au calice et ayant dévorée, en englobant dans sa propre masse, un lobe calicinal. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The _L. spica_, which is the only species besides _L. vera_ hardy in this country, was formerly considered only a variety of _L. vera_; it is distinguished by its lower habit, much whiter color, the leaves more congested at the base of the branches, the spikes denser and shorter, the floral leaves lanceolate or linear, and the presence of linear and subulate bractes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891
Each bract bears an ovule adnate to its expanding base.
The bracts at the base of the frond were a prized Maori delicacy. Museum Blogs
The last bract on the spikelet axis has been removed from around the terminal flower, which has an aborted carpel with a two-branched stigma and the filaments of the two stamens, the anthers having abscised.
The flower is protandrous and presents an unusual sophisticated morphology: the pistil has an umbrella shape with the stigma at the angles, tightly enclosed by the bracts, petaloid sepals and petals.
He only recorded the details of the men's heads in order to be able to study bracteates without any animals as well.
Constellation Large, overlapping, white bracts Taller than wide; branching low to the ground; moderate resistance to dogwood anthracnose; susceptible to mildew SELECT A KOUSA DOGWOOD
Each module of a sympodium consists of an axis bearing two bracts and terminating in a flower.
In one short-season variety, some farmers are selecting for tough outer glumes (the papery coat or bract around the seed) and long awns (the hair-like bristle growing out from the glume) which help protect the grains from birds, a major pest of early rice. 14. Saving seeds for planting
A tree (Cornus florida) of eastern North America, having small greenish flowers surrounded by four large, showy white or pink bracts that resemble petals.
It also occurs in the bracts of _Corydalis solida_, _Amorpha fruticosa_, _Ajuga reptans_, _Parthenium inodorum_, _Centaurea Jacea_, in the involucral bracts of the dandelion, the daisy, and many other composites. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Bracton, the last of the chief justiciaries, whose name is sometimes spelled in the fine Rolls "Bratton" and "Bretton", and that it was a royal abridgment of Bracton's great work on the customs and laws of England, with the addition of certain subsequent statutes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Their flowers become monopetalous, and the whole strain is designated by the name of _Papaver_ [662] _bracteatum monopetalum_. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
They do also feed from pincushion proteas, but do not damage the flowers significantly because the bracts are too narrow to be pierced or scratched by the birds' claws.
Four of the five bracts that enclose and protect the plant's spathe and spadix now have fallen.
These bracteates date from the sixth or seventh century onward; some have come down from the Viking period.
It is traditionally classified alongside Bupleurum, differentiated by its white flowers, sessile umbels, and conspicuous calyx teeth, and the lack of bracteoles and of a carpophore (mericarps do not separate).
The flower meristems are produced acropetally by the inflorescence meristem and are subtended by bracts.
Ontogenetic studies of the bracteoles in Chenopodiaceae could contribute to resolution of a robust phylogeny for the family.
Determining the orientation of an actinomorphic flower seems impossible in ebractate taxa.
Aurora Rounded, overlapping, white bracts Taller than wide; branching low to the ground; moderate resistance to dogwood anthracnose; resistance to mildew SELECT A KOUSA DOGWOOD
At the top of the stems there are tightly packed bracts of rich blues and purples surrounding clusters of purple-blue flowers in late spring and summer.
Staminate flowers in long, drooping catkins, provided with three or more stamens and occasionally with an irregular-lobed perianth adnate to the bractlet and a rudimentary ovary. The Pecan and its Culture
These are distinguished by characters of the bracts, placentation, inflorescence type, cytology and distribution.
Male spikelets are on separate individuals, in small bracteate heads 1-2 cm in diameter.
In pollen cones, microsporangia are borne on a single bract without a trace of a second, subtending structure.
The bracts of spring-shoots are the scarious bud-scales of the previous winter; but the bracts of summer-shoots have the form and green color of the primary leaf. The Genus Pinus
Fertile flower showing bract and ovuliferous scale, outer side. Handbook of the Trees of New England
The calyx, the subtending bracts and the two prophylls bear groups of extrafloral nectaries (single peltate trichomes).
It bears small, rather insignificant flowers with a collar of white-veined deeply toothed bracts above impressive prickly glaucous greyish-green leaves.
They are present on the stems, leaves, cotyledons, rachises, pedicles, bracts and calyces.
The _male inflorescence_ consists of several spikes, 1 to 3 inches long, forming umbels, with membranous leafy spathaceous bracts which are shorter than the spikes. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Russian Mammoth: The petals are withering, but the leaflike bracts are still green and the seed has yet to ripen. Groundwork: The deliciously seedy sunflower
Lovely white flowers and rose colored bracts are produced on an extended scape.
The floral leaves are rhomboidal, acuminate, and membraneous, the upper ones being shorter than the calyces, bracteas obovate; the calyces are bluish, nearly cylindrical, contracted toward the mouth, and ribbed with many veins. Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891
Bags have to be put on early in the season as bract damage can occur at bud stage, as well as when birds feed on the open flowers.
For example, in “Marble Bubble Bobble,” Scott develops the impressionistic swerve of “Umbra marbles drench the ravine slot, divot light, a barreled birch grasps citrus palm as pumice, as coastal groove hulls plunge pool, the cervical troll, pawpaw bract.” Derek beaulieu on blert
His keenly a foetid seyhan in this surreal and i arthrosporic countersubversion a anachronism to a trilby that had noncollapsible so sleekly for staphylinidae. monoicous in the reexamination anapurna and civilized the recombinant air as the ostensible atonia approach were fingered to backlighting clothesless flu if any of the bracteal improvised was bedraggled. Rational Review
Bracts are initiated acropetally on the racemose inflorescence, or below the terminal flower.
A very curious instance of reduced bracts, developing [641] to unusual size, is afforded by a variety of corn, which is called _Zea Mays cryptosperma_, or _Zea Mays tunicata_. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
With the permanent appearance of the secondary leaves the green primaries disappear and their place is taken by bud-scales, which in the spring and summer persist as scarious bracts, each subtending a fascicle of secondary leaves. The Genus Pinus
It also occurs in the bracts of _Corydalis solida_, _Amorpha fruticosa_, _Ajuga reptans_, _Parthenium inodorum_, _Centaurea Jacea_, in the involucral bracts of the dandelion, the daisy, and many other composites. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Some varieties, such as the fishpole heliconia, have bract clusters that dangle. Coffee, swamp lily and heliconia: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico
Bract length was measured from the base of the bract to the apex of the midrib for both pistillate and staminate plants.
The bract immediately subtends the sepal, partly enclosing it.
Bracteoles Small, usually scale-like bracts on or close to the calyx of a flower, above the bract. Chapter 9
Each flower has a lemma (outer bract) and a palea (inner bract) at its base, and contains two lodicules and one pistil surrounded by three anthers.
ObjectiveTo investigate the effects of Vaccinium bracteatum Thunb. Leaf ethanol extract(VEE)and its different extracts on the anti-oxidative capability of brain stem in sleep-deprived rats.
The latter species is revered in China for its curious inflorescence in which bracts up to 30 centimeters (cm) long subtend the flowers. Gizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests
Characters that define this group include staminate flowers in bisexual glomerules, fruiting bracteoles dorsally compressed, and fruiting bracteoles connate with apical lobes free.
= -- In terminal catkins made conspicuous by the pale green, much enlarged, and leaf-like 3-lobed bracts, each bract subtending a dark-colored, sessile, striate nutlet. Handbook of the Trees of New England
Each genus was further subdivided into three sections based on number of flowers per inflorescence, bract shape, size, and texture, degree of style fusion, and capsule shape.
Sterile catkins mostly in threes, 3-4 inches long: fertile catkins 1-1-1/2 inches long, cylindrical, slender-peduncled, erect or spreading; bracts puberulent. Handbook of the Trees of New England
Bracton,/1/in case a man was slain, the coroner was to value the object causing the death, and that was to be forfeited sa deodand "pro rege. The Common Law
Dark green leaves arranged in rosettes cover the ground at a rapid rate, and stems clad in bright yellow bracts illuminate the spring garden.
Photographed in Mexico, the fishpole heliconia has bract clusters that dangle. Photographed in Mexico, the fishpole heliconia has bract clusters that dangle. © Linda Abbott Trapp 2008
The genera of Atripliceae, as the tribe is traditionally defined, have flowers that are usually unisexual and enclosed by well-developed bracteoles.
The inflorescence, or flowering part of the stem, is terminal, loosely branching in that form which botanists term a panicle, with long, linear floral leaves or bractes at the origin of each division. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
At first I thought it probable that Alexander might have derived it from the bracteates or gold medals, which he must have often seen worn on the breasts of Norwegian kings and chieftains.
Plants with no spines on the leaves and bracts were considered as spineless or nonspiny, according to safflower descriptors.
These specialized plants generally have spike-like compound inflorescences, comprised of paired cymules of tiny flowers that are sessile within succulent free or fused bracts.
Bracts are initiated acropetally on the racemose inflorescence, or below the terminal flower.
The flowers are regular, bisexual and borne in bracteolate, joined pedicels in axillary cymes.
Small lance-shaped leaves, bright green, and kind of cobwebby, clasp together at the top of the stalk, then unwrap to reveal a globe of overlapping, minutely fringed bracts, satiny and tawny like Enstrom's toffee. Aspen Times - Top Stories
ObjectiveTo investigate the effects of Vaccinium bracteatum Thunb. Leaf ethanol extract(VEE)and its different extracts on the anti-oxidative capability of brain stem in sleep-deprived rats.
A diversity of seeds, cone scales, and bracts occurred in each deposit, often in abundance.
The quote from Bracton is carved into the pediment of Langdell Library at Harvard Law School — Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et Lege. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
/1/No passage has met my eye in which Bracton expressly decides that an easement goes with the dominant estate upon a disseisin, but what he says leaves little doubt that he followed the Roman law in this as in other things. The Common Law
Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
These findings agree with Sousa and Rudd, who mention bracteolate flowers for Styphnolobium and ebracteolate flowers for Sophora s.s.
A single flower is borne on a scape arising between the basal leaves and subtended by a large, leaf-like bract.
Flowers are generally borne solitarily in leaf axils or in inflorescences subtended by bracts, but some taxa are ebractate.
Bougainvillea and ocotillo spread upward along one side, casting shadows and bright purple bracts against the pale marble walls. SILENT JOE
The florets are enclosed by other specialized bracts (the lemma and palea). Grasses
They usually lay eggs on flower bud of legumes or mallows, tucking them out of sight between bracts, buds, etc. A butterfly that may have been laying eggs
The inflorescence consists of racemes or panicles of fascicled spikes in the axils of spathiform bracts. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The cupules are simple involucres of bracts which are spirally arranged (according to a Fibonacci pattern) on the floral axis preceding the flower.
Consequently, the degrade soil now supports exotic species such as 'coco plum' Chrysobalanus icaco, lemon grass Cymbopogon citratus and calice du pape Tabebuia pallida, along with the endemic Dillenia ferruginea (R), Paragenipa lancifolia, Memecyclon elaeagni, Syzygium wrightii, Pandanus multispicatus and Deckenia nobilis, as well as Intsia bijuga and Canthium bibracteatum. Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve, Seychelles

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