एक स्पैडिक्स या अन्य पुष्पक्रम के आसपास या आसपास के एक विशिष्ट ब्रैक्ट

spathe's Usage Examples:

As the fruit ripens the spathe withers, and the brilliant red berries are exposed.

The insects visit the plant in large numbers, attracted by the foetid smell, and act as carriers of the pollen from one spathe to another.

These are followed by the inflorescence, a fleshy spadix bearing in the lower part numerous closely crowded simple unisexual flowers and continued above into a purplish or yellowish appendage; the spadix is enveloped by a leafy spathe, constricted in the lower part to form a chamber, in which are the flowers.

The small flowers are densely crowded on thick fleshy spikes, which are associated with, and often more or less enveloped by, a large leaf (bract), the so-called spathe, which, as in cuckoo-pint, where it is green in colour, Richardia, where it is white, creamy or yellow, Anthurium, where it is a brilliant scarlet, is often the most striking feature of the plant.

(Narcissus Tazetta) bursting from This gives the special charthe sheathing bract or spathe, b.

The plants have long narrow leaves springing from the bulb and a central scape bearing one or more generally large, white or yellow, drooping or inclined flowers, which are enveloped before opening in a membranous spathe.

p, Pistillate, s, staminate flowers; h, sterile flowers forming a circlet of stiff hairs closing the mouth of the chamber formed by the lower part of the spathe.

- Spadix of Arum niaculatum from which the greater part of the spathe has been cut away.

Lower part of spathe cut open.

long and the spathe single-flowered.

spathe's Meaning':

a conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescence