They often resemble Buttercups, but never have shiny petals, and Buttercups do not have bractlets between the calyx-lobes.
The bracts can then only be distinguished from the bractlets by being rather more acute and more strongly veined.
Both the bracts and bractlets enlarge greatly during the development of the ovary, and form, when fully grown, the membranous scales of the strobile (fig.
Involucral scales in a single row, erect-connivent, with a few bractlets at the base.
Styles smooth; head of fruit conspicuously stalked in the calyx; bractlets of the calyx none, otherwise nearly as Sec.
Calyx flat, deeply 5-cleft, with as many bractlets at the sinuses, thus appearing 10-cleft.
Scales of the cylindrical involucre in a single row, linear, acute, with a few small bractlets at the base.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bractlets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
