bract

• The close up shot of the berries shows their striking navy blue color with the red bract. —  Ledge and Gardens
• The lowest-spikelet in the raceme is female and this is enclosed in a bract which at length becomes hardened, polished and nut-like and the other spikelets above it are male. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Inflorescence; 2. the female spikelet; 3. male spikelets; 4, 5, 6 and 8. the first, second, third and the fourth glume, respectively, of a male spikelet; 7 and 9. palea of the third and the fourth glumes, respectively The female spikelet is enclosed by a closed bract which finally becomes hardened, and there are four glumes in the spikelet. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The ligule is a short stiff slightly lacerate membrane The leaf-blade is linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, base narrowed into a petiole, scaberulous on both the surfaces The inflorescence consists of simple spikes, each in a spathiform bract, and forming clusters terminating the stem and the branches. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Between the calyx and the corolla were three or four spathulate, hairy, bract-like organs; the corolla and stamens were unchanged; but in place of the usual four-lobed ovary there was a single carpel with a basilar style, terminated by a forked stigma. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

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