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...
- calyx; synonymous with bractlet. bracteolate Possessing bracteoles (bractlets). bracteose Having many or showy bracts. bractlet See bracteole. branchlet...
- 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...
- 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...
- leves, short spikes (7–17 mm long), short calyces 1.2-1.6 mm long, and bractlets approximately the same length as the calyx. The calyces are densely glandular...
- presented in a compound umbel atop a stout red to green stem, with broad bractlets (often partially fused) at the base of each secondary umbel. The flower...
- usually on separate trees, their pedicels short, recurved, and bearing two bractlets. Calyx: Usually four-lobed, accrescent under the fruit. Corolla: Greenish...
- about 40 centimeters and hold clusters of flowers. Each flower has minute bractlets beneath small, hairy, pointed sepals and narrow white petals. "Potentilla...
- 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...