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Page 91: 3,142 results for bract

  • Genus: Rosa (rose)

    ...for bracts beneath the flowers, use stems with budding flowers because the bracts are shed early. Species described in the key as having pinnatifid sepals actually produce flowers with 2 entire sepals...

  • Callitriche terrestris (terrestrial water-starwort)

    ... Bracts: neither the flowers nor their pedicels have bracts. Flower symmetry: NA. Veins in flo...

  • Section Paniceae: Dichotomous Key

    ...lowermost bract of inflorescence short, the blade and sheath mostly 28–58% of the total inflorescence height 3b. Reproductive stems scabrous along the angles (at least near the summit); l...

  • Section Paludosae: Dichotomous Key

    ...lowest bract of the inflorescence 4b. Beak of perigynium with distinct, firm teeth 0.2–0.8 mm long; staminate spikes 
1–3, borne on peduncles (8–) 20–90 mm long, usually equaled or overto...

  • Section Limosae: Dichotomous Key

    ...lowest bract of inflorescence 3–15 cm long, equaling or exceeding the height of the inflorescence; stems usually phyllopodic, with dead leaf remains at base 1b. Carpellate scales shorter ...

  • Section Griseae: Dichotomous Key

    ...Lowermost bract of inflorescence with a tightly clasping sheath; widest leaf blades (1.8–) 2.4–4 (–4.6) mm wide; carpellate spikes loosely flowered, many of the perigynia borne in 2 ranks; beak of per...

  • Salicornia: Dichotomous Key

    ...by bracts 2b. Leaf and scale apex rounded to acute [Fig. 340], without a mucro; inflorescence 2.9–5 mm thick, usually of similar thickness to that of the stem; central flower exceeding th...

  • Alnus: Dichotomous Key

    ...leaf-like bracts, 0.5–1.2 mm thick in fruit 2b. Winter buds on stalks 2–4 mm long, with 2 or 3 scales of equal size, rounded to acute at the apex, scurfy-pubescent; samara merely thin-edg...

  • Calystegia: Dichotomous Key

    ...reduced; bracts subtending the calyx cuneate at the base 1b. Stems twining or trailing; leaf blades sagittate to hastate at the base; leaves subtending the flowers with petioles more than...

  • Pyrola: Dichotomous Key

    ...petals; bracts below the flowers numbering 0–2 (–3), narrow-lanceolate, not clasping the scape 3b. Leaf blades broad-elliptic to reniform, usually ± equaling the length of the petiole; se...