Leaflike Bracts can be found.
The bract is single, usually falls early.
Bracts lanceolate, margin with long hair,
with glandular dots on the back.
Sometimes the Bracts are absent and only their remaining tooth-shaped,
awl-like, spatula-shaped or band-shaped appendages are recognizable.
Bracteate inflorescences: The Bracts in the inflorescence are very specialised,
sometimes reduced to small scales, divided or dissected.
If the inflorescence has a second unit of Bracts further up the stem, they might be called an involucel.
According to the presence or absence of Bracts and their characteristics we can distinguish:
Ebracteate inflorescences: No Bracts in the inflorescence.
This use is not technically correct, as, despite their'normal' appearance, these leaves are considered, in fact, Bracts, so that'leafy inflorescence' is preferable.
Leafy inflorescences: Though often reduced in size, the Bracts are unspecialised and look like the typical leaves of the plant,
so that the term flowering stem is usually applied instead of inflorescence.