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Definition of Involucres
1. involucre [n] - See also: involucre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Involucres
Literary usage of Involucres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"The characters are not always obvious, and Glabrous or glandular, not villous
nor tomentose : bracts foliaceous, involucres ..."
2. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"2763 (not of Blume), Leaves coriaceous, 2-3-J in., base acute, sometimes flocculent
beneath, nerve» raised beneath ; petiole i in. involucres 1Í- in. long, ..."
3. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Pedicels of the lower forks scarcely longer than the involucres; lobes of the
latter as broad as ... involucres all sessile. Leaves mostly flat; involucres ..."
4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"differing chiefly in the longer and more pointed cylindrical-oblong or fusiform-clavate
involucres, which in the latter species are commonly pyriform. ..."
5. A History of British Ferns by Edward Newman (1854)
"... linear, narrow, scale-like involucre, also attached to the side of the veins :
the clusters of capsules, together with their involucres, are situated ..."
6. A Popular California Flora: Or, Manual of Botany for Beginners : Containing by Volney Rattan (1880)
"involucres usually deeply 5-0-cleft umbellate, with spreading or reflexed ...
involucres sessile, capitate ; the usually naked globose heads solitary or ..."
7. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Branches villous-hirsute often ascending near the tips: leaf-blades reniform or
deltoid to orbicular or ovate, conspicuously pubescent: involucres fully 1 ..."
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