In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis, or...

Abaca bract mosaic virus (ABrMV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae. Attempts have been made to sequence ABrMV. The virus is said to...

a bract. A bract is usually located at the node where the main stem of the inflorescence forms, joined to the rachis of the plant, but other bracts can...

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...

Verbena bracteata is a species of verbena known by the common names bracted vervain, bigbract verbena, prostrate vervain, and carpet vervain. It is native...

Mentzelia montana, known by the common name variegated bract blazingstar, is a species of flowering plant in the family Loasaceae. Mentzelia montana is...

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...

cone bract length was often used to divide the larches into two sections (sect. Larix with short bracts, and sect. Multiserialis with long bracts), but...

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...

(0.61 metres) tall. Malvidin 3-rutinoside is a pigment responsible for bract color in C. alismatifolia. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Curcuma...

Lonicera involucrata, the bearberry honeysuckle, bracted honeysuckle, twinberry honeysuckle, Californian Honeysuckle, twin-berry, or black twinberry,...

commonly known as three-lobe beggarticks, three-part beggarticks, leafy-bracted beggarticks or trifid bur-marigold. It is native to much of Eurasia, North...

is closed off from most organisms by the ostiole, fringed by scale-like bracts. Syconia can be monoecious or functionally dioecious: the former contain...

Banana bract mosaic virus (BBrMV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae. BBrMV is transmitted by aphid. ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database:...

of tiny individual florets enclosed by a whorl of protective involucral bracts. The oldest known fossils are pollen grains from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian...

produced from spring to autumn; their distinctive feature is the papery bracts that resemble petals. The species is widespread, growing in a variety of...

gymnosperm plants. It is usually woody, ovoid to globular, including scales and bracts arranged around a central axis, especially in conifers and cycads. The cone...

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...

flowers are subtended by conspicuous long, tapering bracts which are 1–6 cm long, with the lower bracts longer and typically greatly exceeding the length...

Galium microphyllum (bracted bedstraw) is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is widespread across much of Mexico, and found also in Guatemala...

Desmodium cuspidatum, common name large-bracted tick-trefoil, is a species of plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is native to North America. The...

species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name bracted Utah fleabane.. It has been found in the southwestern United States, in...

didactic value.: xiii  Diagrams are usually depicted with the subtending bract below and the axis above the flower itself, both in the median line. The...

the top position of the bract and sitting glands. Often encountered hybrid S. alpina × S. alpicola has laterally positioned bract. 7. S. austriaca and S...

species of flowering plant in the Adoxaceae known by the common names bracted arrowwood and limerock arrowwood. It is native to the southeastern United...

salty bird's-beak; palmate bird's-beak; palmate-bracted bird's-beak; palmate-bract bird's-beak; palm-bract bird's-beak; and Ferris's bird's-beak. Note: Variations...

species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name bracted popcornflower. It is native from Oregon throughout California into Baja...

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...

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...

Aletris bracteata (bracted colicroot) is a plant species native to southern Florida (Monroe and Miami-Dade Counties) and to the Bahamas (Andros and Abaco...