One of the two empty bracts at the base of the spikelet in grasses.
The scaly bracts of the spikelets of grasses and sedges.
n. (L. gluma, husk) a chaffy or membranous bract, a bract at the base of a grass inflorescence or spikelet.
Bract, usually occurring in pairs, at the base of the grass spikelet.
The two chaffy structures in the inflorescence of grasses. It is made up of the lemma and palea which usually cover the floret before blooming and often remain attached to the ripened "fruit" or grain of some cereals, such as rice.
A membranous bract at the base of a cereal or grass spike. Chaff.
small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae
In grasses, each of generally two sheathing bracts that are the lowermost parts of a spikelet.
One of a pair of bracts, found at the base of and enclosing a grass spikelet.
a specialized, scale-like leaf at the base of a grass spikelet.
A sterile scale found in grasses
a bract in the inflorescence of a grass, sedge or similar plant.
One of the pair of outer bracts at the base of a spikelet.
a bract at the base of a spikelet in the Grass Family. Return to
the sterile bract, hull, or husk that encloses the grain of grasses such as rice
( glumes): Empty bract at the base of a spikelet (floret) (2)
The case in which an individual cereal grain is enclosed.
One of the two bracts found at the base of a grass spikelet.