involucel
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of involucel
1755–65; < New Latin involūcellum, diminutive of Latin involūcrum involucrum; for formation, see castellum
Example Sentences
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Calyx with an involucel of 2 or 3 bractlets, or none.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Inflorescence cylindric, continuous and not interrupted, with six to twelve bristles in the involucel 1.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
M. Álcea, L., with the stem-leaves only once 5-parted or cleft, the lobes incised, large flowers like the last, but the fruit smooth, and bractlets of the involucel ovate, has escaped from gardens.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Spikelets one to three in each involucel, persistent, 1- to 2-flowered, with three or four glumes.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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