bracteole

lucida (Swamy, 1953) and the same plus a lateral bract (bracteole) in A.

Inflorescences produced before leaves, subtended by small bracts on reduced cymes with 2-5 flowers per cluster, flowers rarely solitary; peduncles stout, 2-3 mm long, pedicels slender, <2 mm long, with a basal small and caducous bracteole <1 mm, soon deciduous.

The pistillate flowers are clustered in cyme-like inflorescences that consist of three flowers, three laciniate tepals and one short, lanceolate, pilose, yellow-greenish bracteole (see Figure 1E).

Typical microscopic characters of powdered hop cones include numerous large yellow glands unique to the species (lupulin glands), abundant bracteole and leaf fragments, as well as sparsely distributed glandular and many covering trichomes (Jackson and Snowden, 1968; Neve, 1991; Yamada et al., 1998; Youngken, 1950).

Inflorescences are loose, not dense; subtending floral leaves have a sparse covering of capitate-sessile glandular trichomes; perigonal bracts (i.e., bracteole, calyx) have a relatively sparse covering of capitate-stalked glandular trichomes.

1 Gynoecium densely sericeous; bracteole gland, when present, sessile and covering much of the abaxial surface of the bracteole; stipules 1.5-3 mm long, connate their whole length; northwestern Amazonia (Brazil and Colombia) L.

Bract and bracteole present, very unequal, white, membranous with long tapering, rather flaccid tips.

Inflorescence are glomerule type and axillar, with 2.5 to 3 cm diameter, bract measure 1.5 x 0.8 cm, are ovate, acute, tomentose, green-cinereous; bracteole are ovate, acute, with 1.3 x 0.4 cm, peduncle are 1-3 cm long.

(1991a); (iv) growth habit classified by the CIAT (1987) 1-to-4 scale; (v) length of the fifth internode on the main stem measured in centimeters; (vi) bracteole shape classified as cordate, ovate, lanceolate, or triangular; (vii) bracteole size classified as small, medium, or large; (viii) outer base of the standard of the corolla classified as striped or smooth; and (ix) pod beak position classified as either placental or central.

Townsend, the partial florescence consists of a solitary hermaphrodite flower and a solitary small sterile flower formed by a large-celled, spongy, ventrally floccose cylinder tipped with small greenish processes present within and scarcely exceeding one bracteole, with the second bracteole empty (Townsend, 1993).