Chaff sheet

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Chaff leaves at a flower head of the daisy family

Chaff sheet or chaff scale , also palea ; Majority the paleen ; the Palea, is a term from botany . As chaff sheets are greatly reduced bracts denotes the individual flowers in a flower head is surrounded; they are present, for example, in many representatives of the composites . You can also setiform ( chaff bristle ) or hair-shaped ( chaff hair ) and be designed like scales.

literature

  • Werner Rothmaler : Exkursionsflora, Vol. 2, Vascular Plants , 12th Edition, People and Knowledge Berlin, 1984.