[pbs] bracteoles - good definition needed
Don Jones
voltaire at islandnet.com
Sun Sep 30 14:34:04 EDT 2007
Only two of my books define bracteole, as a synonym of bractlet,
which is the term all the other books use.
Bractlet is defined as
'a very small bract',
'diminutive of bract',
'bract of a pedicel',
'bract born on a secondary axis, as on the pedicel or even on a petiole'
None of these is specific to bulbous plants, though.
I skimmed through descriptions of some alliums from the Pacific
Northwest and saw bracts mentioned in only three species of the
thirty described. No bracteoles or bractlets.
Diane Whitehead
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