bracted

FLOWERS: White, lip often spotted green with brown streaks, borne on a short, densely bracted terminal inflorescence.

Chapter 7 1999

Pistillate flowers bracted with a three to five, normally four-lobed calyx and sometimes with petals.

The Pecan and its Culture 1920

Trees with alternate pinnate leaves and monoecious bracted flowers.

The Pecan and its Culture 1920

They were scarcely more alive than the creeping, hour-hand tendrils about them, mere double-stemmed, fluffy petaled blossoms, no more strange than the nearest vegetable blooms -- the cannon-ball mystery, the sand-box puzzle, sinister orchids, and the false color-alarms of the white-bracted silver-leaf.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

_Flowers_ -- Small, dull purple and white, tawny, or brownish striped; scattered along loose, tiny bracted, ascending branches.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

_Scapes: _ Clustered from a dense mass of fleshy, fibrous roots; 4 to 12 in. tall, scaly bracted, the bractlets resembling the sepals.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Now two of them bear their flowers in bracted whorls, condensed into umbels at the summits of a scape.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

_Flowers_ -- Pale yellow, 1-1/2 to 2 in. long; in showy, terminal, leafy bracted racemes.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

_Flowers_ -- Yellow, fragrant, opening at evening, 1 to 2 in. across, borne in terminal leafy-bracted spikes.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

_Flowers_ -- Rich vermilion, very rarely rose or white, 1 to 1-1/2 in. long, numerous, growing in terminal, erect, green-bracted, more or less

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891