bract are the leaf like parts in simple flowers.
bract are the leaf like parts in simple flowers.
what are the leaf like parts in simple flowers?
bract
"liparis angustilabris" is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb with crowded, tapered pseudobulbs , about wide and covered with leaf like bracts when young. each pseudobulb has a single linear leaf , wide. between fifteen and thirty five pale green to yellowish flowers, long and wide are borne on an often arching flowering stem long. the sepals and petals curve backwards towards the ovary and are about long and about wide. the labellum is long and about wide with two ridges on its midline. flowering occurs between march and july.









































section::::taxonomy and naming.
liparis angustilabris
there are dermal denticles on the dorsal surface of the body with very little overlapping. fins are fully scaled but the snout is only partially covered. the ventral scales are usually leaf like with no accessory points or ridges. "p. nudipinnis" shows the largest difference in denticle structures. "p. schroederi" has typical denticles of the dorsal surface that are usually slender and leaf like, they bear a very long slender point directed up and back with two accessory points on either side. the dorsal dermal denticles of "p. nudipinnis" are thickened and broader rather than longer. they are about diamond-shaped, and paved. the 3-point denticles distinguish "p. schroederi" very apparently from all other species of "pristiophorus".
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