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Modified or specialized leaf
botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually
Bract
Reproductive structure in flowering plants
inflorescence may include specialised stems and modified leaves known called bracts, as well as smaller bracteoles. A floral formula is a way to represent the
Flower
List of cultivated varieties of banana
in the locule Elbow of the bract Tall (< 0.28) Short (> 0.30) Bend of the bract The bract wraps behind the opening The bract raises without bending behind
List_of_banana_cultivars
One of two bracts enclosing a flower spikelet in grasses
In botany, a glume is a bract (leaf-like structure) below a spikelet in the inflorescence (flower cluster) of grasses (Poaceae) or the flowers of sedges
Glume
Species of virus
Abaca bract mosaic virus (ABrMV) is a plant pathogenic virus. It is transmitted by Pentalonia nigronervosa, Aphis gossypii, and Rhopalosiphum maidis.
Abaca_bract_mosaic_virus
Botanical term for a cluster of flowers
placement of bracts include: Some plants have bracts that subtend the inflorescence, where the flowers are on branched stalks; the bracts are not connected
Inflorescence
Species of plant
(0.61 metres) tall. Malvidin 3-rutinoside is a pigment responsible for bract color in C. alismatifolia. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Curcuma
Curcuma_alismatifolia
Formal schematic description of floral anatomy
also of didactic value. Diagrams are usually depicted with the subtending bract below and the axis above the flower itself, both in the median line. The
Floral_diagram
Reproductive organ on conifers
and variously conic, cylindrical, ovoid, to globular, and have scales and bracts arranged around a central axis, but can be fleshy and berry-like. The cones
Cone_(botany)
Genus of plants
species in the genus. The inflorescence consists of large colorful sepal-like bracts which surround three simple waxy flowers, gaining popularity for the plant
Bougainvillea
Species of flowering plant
flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names bracted jewelflower and bracted twistflower. It is endemic to Texas in the United States. This
Streptanthus_bracteatus
Species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae
Plantago aristata is a species of plantain known by the common name bracted plantain or largebracted plantain. It is native to the eastern and central
Plantago_aristata
Species of flowering plant
(mainly North African) plants which also have the distinctive outer row of bracts around the flowerheads. It is a ruderal plant, found on waste ground and
Helminthotheca_echioides
Botanical term
known an involucral bract or tegule, is a single bract of the involucre of a composite flower. The involucre is the grouping of bracts together. Phyllaries
Phyllary
Flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Australia
produced from spring to autumn; their distinctive feature is the papery bracts that resemble petals. The species is widespread, growing in a variety of
Xerochrysum_bracteatum
Type of fruit produced by plants of the genus Ficus
is closed off from most organisms by the ostiole, fringed by scale-like bracts. Syconia can be monoecious or functionally dioecious: the former contain
Syconium
Species of flowering plant
Verbena bracteata is a species of verbena known by the common names bracted vervain, bigbract verbena, prostrate vervain, and carpet vervain. It is native
Verbena_bracteata
Species of plant
short-lived white flowers emerge sequentially from overlapping bright yellow bracts on racemes that are produced throughout the warm months. The Latin specific
Pachystachys_lutea
Species of flowering plant
the bracts are fused to form a cup or band up to about 2.5 centimeters wide. At the end of each branching of the stem is a similar cup of bracts partially
Oxytheca_perfoliata
Species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae
planted as an ornamental in residential and public areas because of its showy bracts and interesting bark structure. Flowering dogwood is a small deciduous tree
Cornus_florida
Species of flowering plant
Passiflora affinis, the bracted passionflower, is a species of flowering perennial vine of Texas and northeast Mexico. The vine has three-lobed leaves
Passiflora_affinis
Stalk of a plant bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower
fertilisation, an infructescence or a solitary fruit. The peduncle sometimes has bracts (a type of cataphyll) at nodes. The main axis of an inflorescence above
Peduncle_(botany)
Species of honeysuckle
Lonicera involucrata, the bearberry honeysuckle, bracted honeysuckle, twinberry honeysuckle, Californian Honeysuckle, twin-berry, or black twinberry,
Lonicera_involucrata
Species of grass-like plant
sedge, is a perennial flowering plant in the sedge family. It has white bracts, giving it the appearance of white petals with long, green points. It is
Rhynchospora_colorata
Species of grass-like plant
Scleria bracteata, the bracted nutrush, is a plant in the family Cyperaceae. It grows as a perennial climber. Scleria bracteata grows widely in Mexico
Scleria_bracteata
Flowers on short stalks along the stem
spikelet comprises one or more florets enclosed by two glumes (sterile bracts), with flowers and glumes arranged in two opposite rows along the spikelet
Raceme
Species of flowering plant
are subtended by conspicuous long, tapering bracts which are 1–6 cm (0.4–2 in) long, with the lower bracts longer and typically greatly exceeding the length
Dactylorhiza_viridis
Species of grass-like plant
sedge known by the common name long-bracted sedge. It is native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Long-bracted sedge British wildflowers BSBI List
Carex_extensa
Family of flowering plants
accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe (or leaf-like bract). Also known as the arum family, members are often colloquially known as
Araceae
Species of herb
Cradle" is due to its small, white flowers within a boat-shaped, purple bract that resembles a cradle, which is a visual resemblance to the biblical story
Tradescantia_spathacea
leaves (and without an axillary bud). bracteate Possessing bracts. bracteole A small bract borne singly or in pairs on the pedicel or calyx; synonymous
Glossary_of_botanical_terms
Species of plants in the sunflower family
commonly known as three-lobe beggarticks, three-part beggarticks, leafy-bracted beggarticks or trifid bur-marigold. It is native to much of Eurasia, North
Bidens_tripartita
Species of grass-like plant
Carex sparganioides, known as bur-reed sedge or loose-headed bracted sedge, is a perennial plant belonging to the sedge family (Cyperaceae). Its native
Carex_sparganioides
Numbers obtained by adding the two previous ones
pineapple, the flowering of an artichoke, and the arrangement of a pine cone's bracts, though they do not occur in all species. Fibonacci numbers are also strongly
Fibonacci_sequence
Species of flowering plant
surrounded by a cluster of bracts. The outer bracts end in hooks causing a hook-and-loop effect after the flower head dries, when the bracts will attach to humans
Arctium_minus
Species of flowering plant
late spring to early summer, that rise above a whorl of three leaf-like bracts. It is an example of a spring ephemeral, a plant whose life-cycle is synchronized
Trillium_grandiflorum
Large family of flowering plants
of tiny individual florets enclosed by a whorl of protective involucral bracts. The oldest known fossils are pollen grains from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian
Asteraceae
Species of flowering plant
receptacle, while the species name spinosa, meaning spiny, refers to the spiny bracts surrounding the flowers. Pallenis spinosa reaches on average 60 centimetres
Pallenis_spinosa
Underground stem in which various plants asexually reproduce via budding
Carpel Ovary Locule Ovule Stigma Style Hypanthium (Floral cup) Inflorescence Bract Pedicellate Raceme Umbel Perianth Tepal Petal Sepal Plant embryo Receptacle
Rhizome
Species of plant
bihai), their cup-shaped bracts storing water for birds and insects. This plant, however, has pendulous inflorescences with the bracts facing downwards, the
Heliconia_rostrata
Species of flowering plant
toothed bracts that are foliaceous. The ovary is hispid, 3-lobed. Styles are 3, each 2-fid. Capsules are hispid, 3-valved and concealed by a bract. The stem
Acalypha_indica
Genus of plants
one-headed inflorescence-capitulum. Capitula are radiate, with several rows of bracts. Ray florets are female, 2-lipped, the outer lip is large and strap-shaped
Gerbera
Genus of deciduous conifers in the family Pinaceae
century, cone bract length was used to divide the larches into two sections (sect. Larix with short bracts, and sect. Multiserialis with long bracts), but genetic
Larch
Plant species in the stickleaf family
Mentzelia montana, known by the common name variegated bract blazingstar, is a species of flowering plant in the family Loasaceae. Mentzelia montana is
Mentzelia_montana
North American gall-inducing wasp
Diplolepis californica, formerly Rhodites californicus, also known as the leafy bract gall wasp, is a species of cynipid wasp that induces galls on wild roses
Diplolepis_californica
Species of virus
Banana bract mosaic virus (BBrMV) is a plant virus of the family Potyviridae. "Species List: Potyviridae". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Banana_bract_mosaic_virus
Species of tree
Strelitzia nicolai, but are generally considered less attractive, with a green bract. These flowers, upon being pollinated, produce brilliant blue seeds. The
Ravenala_madagascariensis
Suborder of Siphonophorae
Calycophoran on which the bracts, gastrozooids, and gonophores are attached to with the bracts serving as a protective cover. The bracts also contain a phyllocyst
Calycophorae
Plant species in the veronica family
stalks are 0.5 to 2 millimetres (0.020 to 0.079 in) and shorter than the bracts. The fruit capsules are heart-shaped and shorter than the sepal-teeth. It
Veronica_arvensis
Part of a spike inflorescence of a grass or sedge
Poaceae, the grass family, a spikelet consists of two (or sometimes fewer) bracts at the base, called glumes, followed by one or more florets. A floret consists
Spikelet
Species of conifer
pointed triangular bract about 1.5–2 mm long, again similar to other Cupressus and unlike the crescent-shaped, non-pointed bract on the scales of Chamaecyparis
Callitropsis_nootkatensis
Species of flowering plant
long and 2–2.5 cm (0.79–0.98 in) broad. The plant has white edible flower bracts and long pineapple-like fruit with rough skin and a sweet pink pulp. The
Freycinetia_banksii
Species of shrub
by 4 green, egg-shaped involucral bracts 8–19 mm (0.31–0.75 in) long and 6–10.5 mm (0.24–0.41 in) wide. The bracts are green with a yellowish to reddish
Pimelea_rosea
Species of plant
pubescent, rough to the touch; petiole 0.2–1 cm long. The flowers emerge from bracts. Racemose inflorescences 8–20 cm long, axillary or terminal, solitary, puberulent
Petrea_volubilis
Genus of plants
globe-shaped or club-shaped. Beneath the spadix is the spathe, a type of bract. This is variable in shape, as well, but it is lance-shaped in many species
Anthurium
Species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae
leaves 5–10 millimetres (3⁄16–3⁄8 in) long, best identified as scales or bracts. These structures are small, thin, and translucent; they do not have petioles
Monotropa_uniflora
Species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae
with over 100 spirally arranged, trimerous flowers, each subtended by a bract. In the wild, pineapples are pollinated primarily by hummingbirds. Certain
Pineapple
Species of flowering plant
the yellow disc florets. Below the head is an involucre of glabrous green bracts 7–10 millimetres (1⁄4–3⁄8 inch) long with brownish edges. Flowering occurs
Leucanthemum_vulgare
Genus of coniferous trees
colour, darkening as they develop to dark brown or black. The leaflike seed bracts are visible when young, and in some species remain so. The seeds sit in
Fir
Species of flowering plant
and estia meaning "a house"; this refers to the calyxes being covered by bracts. The Latin specific epithet phyllostachya means "with a leaf spike". Growing
Hypoestes_phyllostachya
Family of flowering plants
developing first. Bracts on the peduncle subtend axillary buds that become these lateral stalks. One bract within this whorl is a sterile bract. The bicolor
Malvaceae
Species of tree commonly known as kousa dogwood
bloom, but what appear to be four white petals are actually four spreading bracts below the cluster of inconspicuous yellow-green flowers. The blossoms appear
Cornus_kousa
Genus of flowering plants in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae
contains many small florets, each floret cupped in a membranous, saucer-shaped bract. The calyx has five sepals in the form of awns almost as long as the petals
Scabiosa
Species of flowering plant in the family Nyssaceae
involucrata is best known for its inflorescence that features two large, white bracts, the lower almost twice the size of the upper, surrounding a purplish-red
Davidia_involucrata
Genus of flowering plants
yellow-and-red bicolor or pink. They have showy flower heads with involucral bracts in two distinct series of eight each, the outer being commonly connate at
Coreopsis
Plant used as spice
elliptical, narrowing at the tip. At the top of the inflorescence, stem bracts are present on which no flowers occur; these are white to green and sometimes
Turmeric
Species of flowering plant
the oval-leaf sedge, oval-headed sedge, woodbank sedge, and short-headed bracted sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to the
Carex_cephalophora
Species of flowering plant
inflorescence of G.warszewiczii is made of multiple bracts around a short, purple peduncle. The bracts appear white at first and slowly fade into a deep
Goeppertia_warszewiczii
Species of flowering plant
usually without a dark centre. The epicalyx has 10 to 12 narrow fringed bracts. The leaves are hairy and elliptic-to-oval in shape. White form of Hibiscus
Hibiscus_aethiopicus
Genus of plants
arnottianus A.Gray — koki'o Ke'oke'o (Hawaii) Hibiscus bifurcatus Cav. — fork-bracted rosemallow Hibiscus biseptus S.Watson — Arizona rosemallow Hibiscus boryanus
Hibiscus
Type of inflorescence, clusters of flowers
single-stamen staminate flowers contained within a cup-shaped structure or bracts; the bracts are often rimmed with nectaries and less commonly petal-like structures
Pseudanthium
Extinct genus of flowering plants
bracts which are smooth edged with occasionally very sparsely toothed apical margins. Two types of tertiary bracts are found on specimens. One bract type
Palaeocarpinus
Species of flowering plant
species of flowering plant in the Adoxaceae known by the common names bracted arrowwood and limerock arrowwood. It is native to the southeastern United
Viburnum_bracteatum
Species of plant
it is called misk'i p'anqa (misk'i sweet; honey, p'anqa bract, "sweet bract" or "honey bract"). The name alludes to R. alpinia's value as a culinary herb
Renealmia_alpinia
Computer program for antenna modeling
available, including MININEC. NEC traces its history to an earlier program, BRACT, which was used to analyze antennas consisting of many thin wires in free
Numerical Electromagnetics Code
Numerical_Electromagnetics_Code
Genus of plants from southeastern Australia
inflorescences ranging from 6–15 cm in diameter with a basal ring of coloured bracts. The leaves are spirally arranged, 10–20 cm long and 2–3 cm broad with entire
Waratah
Genus of flowering plants
φαίνω (to shine) and κόμη (hair), which refer to dry and shiny involucral bracts. There is only one known species, Phaenocoma prolifera (Cape strawflower)
Phaenocoma
Species of flowering plant
notable for its distinctly shaped red bracts and is consequently nicknamed “Hot Lips”. Though the bright red bracts are considered its most flashy feature
Palicourea_elata
Genus of plants
eight florets surrounded by bracts. The petals are joined to form a small tube and the florets with their surrounding bracts are yellow or golden-yellow
Pycnosorus
Species of flowering plant in the rush family
centimetres (8 in) from the top. In fact the stem ends there; the top part is the bract, that continues with only a slight colour-band marking it from the stem
Juncus_effusus
Nepeta cataria; species of plant
branches and may be 2 to 8 cm (0.8 to 3.1 in) long, with inconspicuous bracts. A single plant may produce several thousand flowers, but at any given time
Catnip
Genus of flowering plants
and the greater celandine (Chelidonium majus) has branched stems and no bracts or bracteoles. There are three species: Christopher Grey-Wilson, Poppies
Stylophorum
Genus of palms
(0.39 in) long and in semicircular clusters, sandwiched between leathery bracts in pendulous catkins; female flowers are 30–50 mm (1.2–2.0 in) wide, globe-shaped
Borassus
Genus of plants
Verbena xutha Lehm. – gulf vervain Verbena obsession cascade pink Large-bracted Vervain (V. bracteata) Verbena rigida Verbena speciosa Superbena® Scarlet
Verbena
Species of plant in the genus Cerinthe
major subsp. major, with sea-green bracts and yellow flowers, to Cerinthe major subsp. purpurascens with blue bracts and purple flowers. The following
Cerinthe_major
Protected area in California, US
state-endangered Fresno kangaroo rat (Dipodomys nitratoides exilis) and the palmate-bracted bird's-beak (Cordylanthus palmatus). The reserve is also an important area
Alkali Sink Ecological Reserve
Alkali_Sink_Ecological_Reserve
Species of shrub
11 in – 6 ft 7 in) tall. Like most other Mussaenda species, they have a bract beneath their flowers, which in this species is white in colour. The shrub
Mussaenda_frondosa
Palmyra palm, toddy palm
long and form semi-circular clusters, which are hidden beneath scale-like bracts within the catkin-like inflorescences. In contrast, the female flowers are
Borassus_flabellifer
Species of flowering plant
Variety macrorhiza, with broad, shallow leaf lobes and oblong inflorescence bracts
Heuchera_villosa
Species of plant in the family Lamiaceae
aromatic leaves, and loose clusters of pink flowers with hop-like pale green bracts, throughout the summer. The specific epithet rotundifolium means "round-leaved"
Origanum_rotundifolium
Species of flowering plant
species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name bracted popcornflower. It is native from Oregon throughout California into Baja
Plagiobothrys_bracteatus
Species of flowering plant
Inflorescences are held erect atop peduncles. Rachises and scoop-shaped bracts subtending individual flowers are red to orange. The flowers' remarkable
Heliconia_aurantiaca
Species of flowering plant
stacked up the stem with bracts radiating from the stem, under each flower. Varying in color from light pink to white, the bracts are ornamental longer than
Monarda_punctata
Species of tree
subtending bract, and have a rich, heavy scent; the trees are much visited by bees, the erect flowers of which being held above the bract. It's in this
Tilia_cordata
Type of vegetable cultivated for culinary use
cluster of many budding small flowers (an inflorescence), together with many bracts, on an edible base. Once the buds bloom, the structure changes to a coarse
Artichoke
Extinct order of conifers
on a large bract (modified leaf), and consists of two parallel rows of ovules that run along the midline of the adaxial surface of the bract which are
Palissyales
Extinct order of conifers
these short shoots, emerging from bracts. Among conifers, a leaf of any kind does not emerge from the axil of a bract. Eckenwalder, James E. (2009). Conifers
Cordaitales
Species of flowering plant
densely crowded inflorescence called a spadix is subtended by one large bract called a spathe (occasionally two spathes are produced, with the upper spathe
Spathiphyllum_wallisii
Species of flowering plant
tomentose. The inflorescence is crowned by a mass of purple elongated ovoid bracts about 5 cm long. Lower flowers form a tight rectangle in cross-section.
Lavandula_stoechas
Species of flowering plant
Aletris bracteata, the bracted colicroot, is a plant species native to southern Florida (Monroe and Miami-Dade Counties) and to the Bahamas (Andros and
Aletris_bracteata
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Boy/Male
Hindu
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Weaver
Girl/Female
Indian
Success
Girl/Female
Arabic, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Muslim
Rich; Wealthy
Girl/Female
French, German
Spear Ruler
Surname or Lastname
English (Cambridgeshire)
English (Cambridgeshire) : topographic name or a habitational name, perhaps from Stubblefield Farm in Kent or some other place similarly named.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Cambridgeshire named Coveney, from either the genitive case of Old English cofa ‘shelter’ (see Cove) or of a personal name Cofa (of uncertain origin) + Old English ēg ‘island’. The surname is also established in Ireland.
Boy/Male
Indian
Generosity, Prophets grandfather, Decisive
Boy/Male
Tamil
To enter
Boy/Male
Muslim
Gold lamp
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n.
A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
a.
Having three bracts.
a.
Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.
a.
Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
n.
A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.
a.
Having a bract or bracts.
a.
Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
a.
Furnished with bracts.
n.
A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States.
n.
A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
a.
Destitute of bracts.
n.
A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.
n.
A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.
n.
A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
n.
In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.
n.
A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.
n.
A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix.
n.
Same as Bractlet.
n.
A bract.
n.
One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.