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Bracteose
With many, or showy, bracts.
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Bracteoliform
Bracteole-shaped [obscure term].
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Bracteole
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…
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Bracteolate
Subtended by, or beset with bracteoles.
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Bracteody
The replacement of floral whorls by bracts [obscure term].
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Bracteate
Subtended by, or beset with, bracts. Bearing many small leaf-like structures or bracts. Small leaf situated at the base of the flower or on its stem.
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Bract
A modified and specialized leaf in the inflorescence, standing below partial peduncles, pedicels or flowers. Any more or less reduced or modified leaf associated with a flower or an inflorescence that is not part of the flower itself. A leaf-like structure, usually different in form from the normal leaves, associated with the inflorescence. Modified leaf;…
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Brackish
Water of some salinity, but of less salinity than sea water. Coastal tidal water that is somewhat salty, but not as salty as seawater.
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Brachystylous
(In heterostylous flowers) the shortstyled morph.
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Brachyblast
Short shoot of limited growth (e.g. a spur shoot), usually borne on a long main axis; also a short shoot with persistent successive pairs of stipules and thus appearing thatched.
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