¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bractlets
1. bractlet [n] - See also: bractlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bractlets
Literary usage of Bractlets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Leaves silvery-silky beneath, not strongly reticulate: bractlets black 51. ...
bractlets yellow or brown: stipes 3-4 times as long as the nectaries; ..."
2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Perfect flower solitary, without empty bractlets or staminate flowers either ...
Perfect flower with one or two staminate flowers or empty bractlets below ..."
3. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"The relation of bractlets or bract, that is, of the last leaves of ... When with
a pair of bractlets, right and left, the first flower-leaf is at V ..."
4. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"... m the calyx: bractlets of the calyx none: otherwise as § 1. 5. ... bractlets
linear, longer than the purple calyx, as long as the oolong purplish erect ..."
5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"In this way, eg, we can explain the very common position in the 2-5th arrangement
of the calyx with the second sepal posterior, by supposing two bractlets ..."
6. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"Tomentose on both sides; bractlets shorter than the sepals . 36. P. effusa.
Silky above, tomentose-silky beneath; bractlets as long as the Leaves ..."
7. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"bractlets 3 to 6, united at base. Axis of the fruit dilated above and ...
bractlets 1 or 2, or usually none. Ovules solitary, pendulous or horizontal. 5. ..."
Other Resources:
