Definition of Bractlet. Meaning of Bractlet. Synonyms of Bractlet

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Definition of Bractlet

Bractlet
Bractlet Bract"let, n. [Bract + -let] (Bot.) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers. --Gray.

Meaning of Bractlet from wikipedia

- golden bracts of Musella lasiocarpa. A small bract is called a bracteole or bractlet. Technically this is any bract that arises on a pedicel instead of subtending...
- leaf, and solid. The spathe is lanceolate, membranous, and 6–10 cm. The bractlet liner is 3–7 cm. Its perianth tube is slender and straight, green white...
- below the middle and dark chestnut brown at apex. Each scale bears two bractlets and three sterile flowers, each flower consisting of a sessile, membranous...
- hairless and 15 millimetres (0.59 in) to 20 millimetres (0.79 in) with small bractlets nearer to the base which are densely hairy. The petals are thick and yellowish...
- calyx; synonymous with bractlet. bracteolate Possessing bracteoles (bractlets). bracteose Having many or showy bracts. bractlet See bracteole. branchlet...
- each segment is reflexed and sometimes glaucous. The lanceolate shaped bractlets are in two series, with the apices a****inate in shape. The 14–25 millimetres...
- but are most often blue or bluish purple. The calyx is silky, without bractlets; its upper labium with a protuberant basis, is integral or weakly emarginate...
- usually on separate trees, their pedicels short, recurved, and bearing two bractlets. Calyx: Usually four-lobed, accrescent under the fruit. Corolla: Greenish...
- deeply four-parted, very downy, and orange brown within. Two or three bractlets appear at base. The fruit is a hard woody capsule 10–14 mm (0.39–0.55 in)...
- solitary, or two to three together, above the spreading leaves. Bracts and bractlets are lanceolate, acute and persistent. Calyx: Calyx tube, coherent with...