Definition of Involucra

1. involucrum [n] - See also: involucrum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Involucra

invok't
invokable
invoke
invoked
invoker
invokers
invokes
invoking
invokingly
involatile
involucel
involucella
involucellate
involucellum
involucels
involucra (current term)
involucral
involucrate
involucrated
involucre
involucred
involucres
involucret
involucrets
involucrin
involucrum
involuntarily
involuntariness
involuntary
involuntary guarding

Literary usage of Involucra

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"involucra! bracts more or less united ; style-branches of the disk-flowers elongated. ... involucra! bracts hooked at the tip; leaves not bristly. 103. ..."

2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... extreme form, mostly with mutinous involucra! bracts. — In shady places, Penn. and Ohio to Florida. V. Baldwinii, TOUR. ..."

3. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"involucra! bracu mosi.y ш 1 ... involucra^ brait* distinct or united ... t *he t:ps o: the involucra ".ra"« petal '.id or s C3. ..."

4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"involucra! bracts obtuse, acute, or acuminate, but not conspicuously Pappus ... on the nerves beneath ; involucra! bracts mostly with shorter filiform tips ..."

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