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Bract	A reduced and frequently otherwise differentiated leaf that is often associated with inflorescences and subtends the pedicels of flowers.
Bracteole	A small bract usually inserted on the pedicel.
Bracteole (adj. = bracteolate)	A small bract usually inserted on the pedicel. In the Lecythidaceae bbracteoles usually are in pairs inserted on pedicels.
Bracteoles above articulation	Bracteoles inserted above the articulation in the pedicel/hypanthium continuum of Lecythidaceae.
Bracteoles above articulation	Bracteoles inserted above the bracteoles in the pedicel/hypanthium continuum of Lecythidaceae.
Bracteoles below articulation	Bracteoles inserted below the articulation in the pedicel/hypanthium continuum of Lecythidaceae.
Bracteoles below articulation	Bracteoles inserted below the articulation in the pedicel/hypanthium continuum of Lecythidaceae.
Branch	All divisions of a plant.
Branch	A division of the stem, or other axis of growth of a plant.
Branched inflorescence	An inflorescence with at least two orders of rachises, i.e., the central rachis has branches emanating from it.
Bromeliad	A member of the plant family Bromeliaceae.
Broquidódroma, broquidódromo	Se refiere a un tipo de disposición de los nervios en las hojas, en la que los nervios secundarios no terminan en el margen, sino que antes de llegar al margen éstos se arquean y unen entre sí para formar un nervio submarginal; por ejemplo, en las Myrtaceae. Comparar con camptódroma
Bud	A young shoot from which leaves or flowers may develop, the former is a leaf bud and the latter is a flower bud.
Bud	A young shoot from which leaves or flowers may develop, the former is a leaf bud and the latter is a flower bud.
Bud naked	Referring to a bud that is not covered by bud scales.
Bud scale	A reduced leaf that encloses a bud.
Bud scale	Bracts that subtend either a vegetative or a reproductive bud.
Bulb	A short, underground stem covered by enlarged and fleshy leaf bases, e.g., an onion.
Bulbil	A small bulblike structure that functions in asexual reproduction, usually formed in axils or sinuses of leaves.
Bulblet	A small, short, more-or-less underground stem covered by enlarged and fleshy leaf bases which arises from a bulb, a bublet may eventially grow into a bulb; a bulblike, above ground structure, usually in leaf axils or sometimes in inflorescences.
Bullate	Blistered or bulging up between the higher order veins on the adaxial surface.
Burital	A Portuguese name referring to palm swamps dominated by moriche palms Mauritia flexuosa. Same as aguajal and morichal in Spanish.
Buttress	An outgrowth at the base of a tree trunk thought to support trees when they grown on unstable soil or on steep slopes.
Buzz pollination	A type of pollination in which bees vibrate their indirect flight muscles to cause the release of pollen, usually from poricidal anthers; e.g., in many species of Solanum (Solanaceae).
Caatinga	A Portuguese term referring to a dry, thorn-scrub, deciduous vegetation of northeastern Brazil. Do not confuse eastern Brazilian caatinga with Amazonian caatinga.

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