Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A secondary involucre, as at the base of an umbel within a compound umbel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a secondary involucre in a compound cluster of flowers, as in many of the Umbelliferæ. See cut under
inflorescence (fig. 9).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A partial, secondary, or small involucre. See
Illust. ofinvolucre .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany An
involucre that forms at the base of aflower cluster within a compoundinflorescence .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Base of involucel rounded; inner bristles shorter, erect, not ciliate 1.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spikelets one to three in each involucel, persistent, 1 - to
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Inflorescence cylindric, continuous and not interrupted, with six to twelve bristles in the involucel 1.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The involucel consists of hardened spike-like bristles connate at the base into a short coriaceous cup, which is surrounded by erect or squarrose bristles.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spikelets are obovoid or lanceolate, 1 - to 2-flowered, persistent on their stalks, one to three in an involucel.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _pedicelled spikelets_ of the involucel have firmer harder, shorter and broader pedicels, thickly bearded and consist of two glumes only.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _spikelets_ are usually one to two and rarely three in an involucel and each one has four _glumes_.
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A portion of the spike; 2. an involucel with two spikelets; 3, 4, 5 and 7. the first, second, third and the fourth glume respectively; 6 and
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Inflorescence interrupted, with three to six bristles in the involucel 2.
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Each cluster consists of an involucel of 4 pedicelled spikelets forming a true whorl around 2 pedicelled and 1 sessile spikelets or 3 pedicelled and 2 sessile spikelets.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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