bracteoles

Covered by bracts and bracteoles which are the more visible structures of the flowering part.

Chapter 7 1999

Fruit bracteoles are relatively thin compared to other casuarinas.

Chapter 20 1990

In 2 or 3 days the woody valves (bracteoles) open and the winged seeds are released and can be collected.

4. Management 1984

The double involucrum, common to the genus, has its upper set of bracteoles rolled outward; they are of a brownish colour; the lower set are green and wheel-shaped during the period of a perfect ray, and they alternate with the upper ones.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

They have very short pedicels, and the whorl is supported by a bract of stem-clasping leaves, cupped, and variously shaped, as ovate and beaked; there are also supplementary bracteoles.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

She carries a faded cut-flower, got at considerable cost from a botanical garden, and as she goes she counts its petals, its stamens, its bracteoles.

Mankind in the Making 1906

She carries a faded cut-flower, got at considerable cost from a botanical garden, and as she goes she counts its petals, its stamens, its bracteoles.

Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903