Definition of Paleae. Meaning of Paleae. Synonyms of Paleae

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Definition of Paleae

Paleae
Palea Pa"le*a, n.; pl. Pale[ae] (-[=e]). [L., chaff.] 1. (Bot.) (a) The interior chaff or husk of grasses. (b) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

Meaning of Paleae from wikipedia

- The paleae (chaffs on the receptacles of many Asteraceae) have orange to reddish purple ends, and are longer than the disc corollas. The paleae bases...
- diameter conical in shape and is set with ovate papery bracts called chaff or paleae. Inplanted are dorsally compressed cypselas, each enclosed by a palea, the...
- is conical in shape and is set with ovate papery bracts called chaff or paleae. Inplanted are dorsally compressed cypselas, each enclosed by a palea, the...
- on each side of body, disposed in a fan-shaped row of flat setae or paleae. Paleae broad and rather short. Chrysopetalum elegans is a synonym for Bhawania...
- phyllaries 3 to 4 mm in length, glabrous, with brown tips and margins. The paleae are 2 to 3 mm long with brown tips. The ray flowers have rays 8 to 15 mm...
- the flowers called receptacles, are hemispheric to ovoid in shape with paleae 2.5 to 4 mm long, the apices are obtuse to acute in shape with the ends...
- Asteraceae. 3.  Chaffy scales on the stipe of many ferns. paleate Bearing paleae or chaffy scales, as in description of the receptacle of a capitulum of...
- Ozothamnus are straight or radiating and lacking paleae between florets, whilst C****inia possess paleae and their involucral bracts are connivent. O. ferrugineus...
- pistil of the ray floret is fused to the adjacent phyllary as well as 3 paleae and their ****ociated disk florets to form a "cypsela complex". The species...
- long ending usually with only one flower head. The flowering "cones" with paleae 9–15 mm long, with the ends red to orange-tipped, usually straight, and...