{"id":1799,"date":"2020-09-16T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2020-09-16T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:19:37","slug":"orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-floral-bract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-floral-bract\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami – Floral bract."},"content":{"rendered":"

A modified leaf considered a part of the flower is termed floral bract. The purpose of it is to support or enfold the flower, however in the case of orchid flowers it rarely enfold the flower. <\/span><\/p>\n

Floral bracts arise from the rachis at the point of contact of the pedicel. It can be a minute triangular-like growth to a leaf-like even longer than the pedicel or the pedicellate ovary. In some species it is larger than the flower and forms a concave shape. The many characteristics of floral bracts like its length, deflexed, hairy, colours, encircling the ovary, deciduous at flowering etc., help in identifying the species.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hairy<\/a>
Hairy as well as longer than the pedicellate ovary bracts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Leaf-like,<\/a>
Leaf-like, large concave shaped bract.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Deflexed<\/a>
Deflexed as well as coloured bracts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Encircling<\/a>
Encircling the ovary bracts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Triangular-like<\/a>
Triangular-like minute bracts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Hairy<\/a>
Hairy and coloured bracts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shorter<\/a>
Shorter than the pedicellate ovary bracts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Longer<\/a>
Longer than the pedicellate ovary bracts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Hairy<\/a>
Hairy and concave shaped bracts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"As<\/a>
As long as or longer than the pedicellate ovary bracts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Deflexed<\/a>
Deflexed bracts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A modified leaf considered a part of the flower is termed floral bract. The purpose of it is to support or enfold the flower, however in the case of orchid flowers it rarely enfold the flower. Floral bracts arise from the rachis at the point of contact of the pedicel. It can be a minute … Continue reading Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami – Floral bract.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[407,400,408,401,410,409,403,406,397,399,398,405,54,354,404,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}