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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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 flowering plant
California (Mexico). Its common names include kuʼu, sand blazing star and white-bract blazing star. Mentzelia involucrata is an annual plant growing to a height
Mentzelia_involucrata
Genus of flowering plants
rosette, with the flowering stems bearing only small brown scale-leaves (bracts). The flowers are produced on a branched panicle or corymb, the individual
Limonium
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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, 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 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 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 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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
South American flower cultivar
vast applications in urban landscaping due to its attractive and colorful bracts. Bougainvillea peruviana was first described by German naturalist and explorer
Bougainvillea_peruviana
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Genus of plants
inhabitants. In bracts with greater quantities of water the typical inhabitants are mosquito larva. Insects living in the bracts often feed on the bract tissue
Heliconia
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
Species of tree found in North America
magnifica var. magnifica, red fir cones 14–21 cm (5+1⁄2–8+1⁄4 in) long, bract scales short, not visible on the closed cones. Range, primarily in the Sierra
Abies_magnifica
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 shrub endemic to Western Australia
Banksia fuscobractea, commonly known as the dark-bract banksia, is a species of shrub that is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia
Banksia_fuscobractea
Arrangement of plant parts around the stem
having whorled leaves include Galium, Nerium, Elodea, and Lilium. Leaf-like bracts may also be whorled (as in Trillium, e.g.). Leaf whorls occur in some trees
Whorl_(botany)
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BBCH-scale_(Musaceae)
Genus of angiosperms
to represent an ancestral state is that the flower bud is enclosed in a bract rather than in sepals; the perianth parts are undifferentiated and called
Magnolia
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
Species of flowering plant in the laurel family
(3–10 in) long and alternately arranged. Panicles of flowers with deciduous bracts arise from new growth or the axils of leaves. The tree flowers thousands
Avocado
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
Genus of flowering plants
aromatic leaves and abundant tubular flowers with long-lasting coloured bracts. The genus includes the important group of culinary herbs: marjoram (Origanum
Origanum
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
Tropical, edible, staple fruit
plant as a whole is perennial. The inflorescence contains many petal-like bracts between rows of flowers. The female flowers (which can develop into fruit)
Banana
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
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
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
Strelitzia nicolai, but are generally considered less attractive, with a green bract. These flowers, upon being pollinated, produce brilliant blue seeds. The
Ravenala_madagascariensis
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
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
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
Species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae
the fruit develops as an almost spherical capsule, which is hidden by the bracts. It is 1 centimetre (1⁄2 in) in diameter, containing two to four large,
Calystegia_sepium
Species of plant
multiple bracts spirally arranged around a very short, red peduncle. The inflorescence is usually emerging from a node of a cauline leaf. The bracts are of
Calathea_timothei
Protective casings of the seeds of cereal grain
barley, oats, and wheat), the ripe seed is surrounded by thin, dry, scaly bracts (called glumes, lemmas, and paleas), forming a dry husk (or hull) around
Chaff
Phenomenon of attracting and holding water molecules
Taraxacum (dandelions). In nature these involucral bracts have a diurnal rhythm. The whorl of hygroscopic bracts bend outward exposing the capitulum (see illustration)
Hygroscopy
Species of plant
golden-yellow, pink, white or purple. Blooms June–August. Fertile bracts green, coma bracts pinkish white. Leaves glossy with raised veins, 14 inches (36 cm)
Curcuma_petiolata
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
stemless rosettes of thin, recurved leaves and paddle-shaped spikes of 20 pink bracts with violet flowers, in spring and autumn. The Latin specific epithet cyanea
Wallisia_cyanea
Species of legume
bracteata, otherwise known as longbract wild indigo, long-bract wild indigo, long-bracted wild indigo, plains wild indigo, cream false indigo, or cream
Baptisia_bracteata
Species of flowering plant
number of small bulbils and none to a few flowers, subtended by a basal bract. The leaves are slender hollow tubes, 15–60 cm (6–24 in) long and 2–4 mm
Allium_vineale
Species of flowering plant
texture. Its tiny rose-pink flowers are surrounded by brighter purple-pink bracts in summer and autumn. The dittany is classified as vulnerable on the IUCN
Origanum_dictamnus
Species of plant
Australia. It has slightly leathery, oblong-elliptic shaped leaves, hairy bracts and pale red to orange flowers from July to September. Diplolaena dampieri
Diplolaena_dampieri
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
or the 'peace lily' (Spathiphyllum wallisii), distinguished by a whitish bract (spathe) containing an inner spadix. Dieffenbachia seguine is cultivated
Dieffenbachia_seguine
Species of flowering plant
A conspicuous, slightly ciliate bract with 5–9 lobes is located where the leaf petiole meets the stem. This bract wraps around the inflorescence, which
Acalypha_rhomboidea
Genus of flowering plants
two hairy or smooth bracts that are green in most species. The outer bract is often the largest of the two. In most species the bracts have a dry, brown
Babiana
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 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
Atriplex glabriuscula, usually known in English as Babington's orache, is a prostrate to ascending plant that occurs on shingle beaches in NW Europe, and
Atriplex_glabriuscula
Species of flowering plant in the celery family
stems, and numerous small blue conical flowerheads surrounded by spiky bracts in summer. Eryngium planum is used in European folk medicine as a diuretic
Eryngium_planum
Species of flowering plant
conspicuous, persistent bracts on the inflorescences. However, it sharply distinct from the latter due to its ovate to lanceolate bracts, which are hyaline
Begonia_tenuibracteata
Genus of conifers
and persistent. They vary in shape and lack an apophysis and an umbo. The bracts are included and small. The seeds are small, from 2 to 4 mm (3⁄32 to 5⁄32 in)
Tsuga
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
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
Structure connecting flowers or fruit to the main stem of a plant
pedicels is called a peduncle. A pedicel may be associated with a bract or bracts. In fruit-bearing plants such as pears (Pyrus species), differences
Pedicel_(botany)
Species of plant
flowers Flower spike before the petals emerge Calyx (purple) and flower bracts (light brown) Calyx and corolla Corolla (petals) Calyx and corolla (side
Lavandula_angustifolia
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Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Great
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Daughtry.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Guardian of peace
Boy/Male
Tamil
Lord Indra
Boy/Male
Tamil
Sandalwood
Boy/Male
Hindu
Cheerful, Pleased, Happy
Boy/Male
Gaelic American French Welsh Irish
Faithful.
Boy/Male
Teutonic American German
warrior.
Boy/Male
Welsh
Worthy lord. Derived from 'ior' and 'gwerth'. Legendary son of Maredudd.
Girl/Female
Assamese, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Peahen
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n.
A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
n.
A bract.
a.
Having a bract or bracts.
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.
a.
Furnished with bracts.
n.
Same as Bractlet.
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.
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.
a.
Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.
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.
Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
a.
Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
n.
One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
n.
A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.
a.
Destitute of bracts.
a.
Having three bracts.
n.
A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.
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.
In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.