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a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence

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Within-shrub differences among bractless and control half-plants regarding the vigor of the progeny were significant (and in the expected direction if bracts increased seed quality; question 5) only in two out of five cases.
Since there were fewer pollen tubes within styles of bractless shrubs, however, and because tube number has a number of implications on progeny development (e.g., through microgametophyte competition, Hill and Lord 1986, Snow 1986, Mulcahy et al.
The role of colored accessory bracts in the reproductive biology of Lavandula stoechas
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