Definition of Bracts. Meaning of Bracts. Synonyms of Bracts

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Definition of Bracts

Bract
Bract Bract, n. [See Bractea.] (Bot.) (a) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises. (b) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower. Note: Bracts are often inconspicuous, but sometimes large and showy, or highly colored, as in many cactaceous plants. The spathes of aroid plants are conspicuous forms of bracts.

Meaning of Bracts from wikipedia

- of papery bracts, called the lemma (lower bract) and palea (upper bract), while each spikelet (group of florets) has a further pair of bracts at its base...
- Other plants have the bracts subtend the pedicel or peduncle of single flowers. Metatopic placement of bracts include: When the bract is attached to the...
- Abaca bract mosaic virus (ABrMV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae. Attempts have been made to sequence ABrMV. The virus is said to...
- While most of the wild trees have white bracts, some selected cultivars of this tree also have pink bracts, some even almost a true red. They typically...
- modified leaves, the bracts, which in Xerochrysum, as in most Gnaphalieae, are petal-like, stiff, and papery. Arranged in rows, these bracts curl over and enclose...
- cone bract length was often used to divide the larches into two sections (sect. Larix with short bracts, and sect. Multiserialis with long bracts), but...
- have smooth or toothed edges. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers and bracts. Each flower has a bell-shaped calyx of sepals and four purple petals which...
- Umbellate cymes; bracts modified, non-petaloid; fruits oblong, red; stone walls filled with cavities: Subgenus Afrocrania. Dioecious, bracts 4. Cornus volkensii...
- subtended by a bract, called a "palea" or "receptacular bract". These bracts are often called "chaff". The presence or absence of these bracts, their distribution...
- bloom, but what appear to be four, white petals are actually four spreading bracts below the cluster of incon****uous yellow-green flowers. The blossoms appear...