pedicel

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A narrowing called the articulation separates the floral axis from the lower pedicel, which attached the flower to a stem.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Subtended, supported or surrounded; as a pedicel by a bract, or a flower-cluster by an involucre.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Specially, the bract is the small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds, 73.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Spikelets usually 2-flowered, with an abortive rudiment or pedicel, numerous, in a contracted or slender panicle, very smooth.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa