involucel
noun
a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
involucellate
-
a word derived from
involucel.
Example Sentences
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Calyx involucellate at the base by a row of numerous bractlets, 5-cleft.
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
The inflorescences are spike-like racemes, consisting of involucellate clusters of shortly pedicelled spikelets jointed on a simple rachis.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The inflorescence is a spike-like raceme consisting of involucellate clusters of shortly pedicellate spikelets, involucels consist of unequal, simple or branched bristles.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
