A secondary bract, usually smaller than the bracts and always borne above them; a small modified leaf (or pair of modified leaves) borne just below the flower, or anywhere along a pedicel above the bract; often defined specifically as the bract at or near the base of the pedicel [vague term with differing uses].
Diminutive of bract, a mere scale.
Leaf like appendage on the stalk of a flower.
A tiny leaf- like structure, usually green, on a flower-stalk.
In Umbellifers, the whorls of small leaves or bracts at the bases of the secondary or partial umbels.