The topic bracteole is discussed in the following articles:


  • TITLE: angiosperm (plant)
    SECTION: The receptacle
    ...When the flowers are borne in an inflorescence, the peduncle is the internode between the bract and the inflorescence; the internode between the receptacle of each flower and its underlying bracteole is called a pedicel. Thus, in inflorescences, bracteole is the equivalent of bract, and pedicel is the equivalent of peduncle.


  • TITLE: gnetophyte (plant)
    SECTION: Pollination and embryogeny
    ...stage in the mature seed. A seed consists of an embryo with two seed leaves (cotyledons), a stem axis, and a root, embedded in nutritive tissue of the female gametophyte. The pair of protective bracteoles become hard, and the seed is also surrounded by fleshy bracts that may become ivory, red, or orange in colour, perhaps an adaptation for animal dispersal. There appears to be no resting...
  • TITLE: gnetophyte (plant)
    SECTION: Reproductive structures and function
    ...or a microsporangiophore, which terminates in a cluster of sporangia, called microsporangia, that house the haploid reproductive cells (spores). The microsporangia are surrounded by a pair of bracteoles (scalelike leaves). Meiotic divisions in cells of the microsporangia produce the haploid pollen grains.