The inflorescences are protected by bracts joined together along one side.

The flowers are solitary or, more frequently, arranged in umbellate inflorescences at the end of a stem ( scape ).

The flowers are usually arranged in inflorescences, and the mature seeds lack endosperm.

Approximately 60 species are recognized, with inflorescences and foliage ranging from purple and red to green or gold.

One habitat is rocky, sea-side cliffs, where the plants are bushy with broad leaves and expanded inflorescences ; the other is among sand dunes where the plants grow prostrate with narrow leaves and compact inflorescences.

However, in tropical areas they are also common on inflorescences, fruits and in aerial situations ( e. g., in the canopy of trees ).

Flowers are hermaphroditic, usually strongly zygomorphic, in determinate cymose inflorescences, and subtended by conspicuous, spirally arranged bracts.

The inflorescences are borne on stalks typically 5 – 40 cm ( 2. 25-15. 75 in ) tall, and can be a short cone or a long spike, with numerous tiny wind-pollinated flowers.

Ornamental grasses, such as perennial bunch grasses, are used in many styles of garden design for their foliage, inflorescences, seed heads, and slope stabilization.

Nearly half of fig species are gynodioecious, and therefore have some plants with inflorescences ( syconium ) with long styled pistillate flowers, and other plants with staminate flowers mixed with short styled pistillate flowers.

The ' flowers ' of Moraceae are often pseudanthia ( reduced inflorescences ).

Plants have indeterminate inflorescences, which are sometimes reduced to a single flower.

They are usually arranged in indeterminate inflorescences.

In the Mimosoideae, the flowers are actinomorphic and arranged in globose inflorescences.

* Bracteate inflorescences: The bracts in the inflorescence are very specialised, sometimes reduced to small scales, divided or dissected.

* Leafy inflorescences: Though often reduced in size, the bracts are unspecialised and look like the typical leaves of the plant, so that the term flowering stem is usually applied instead of inflorescence.

In inflorescences these two different growth patterns are called indeterminate or determinate, and indicate whether a terminal flower is formed and where flowering starts within the inflorescence.

Indeterminate and determinate inflorescences are sometimes referred to as open and closed inflorescences respectively.

The main groups of inflorescences are distinguished by branching.

Indeterminate simple inflorescences are generally called racemose.

Cymose or other complex inflorescences that are superficially similar are also generally called thus.

The flowers are borne in terminal panicle-like inflorescences of green or, in some varieties, shades of red monoecious flowers without petals.

The pistillate inflorescences are also one to two metres long unbranched and the flowers are borne on a zig-zagging rachilla.

The flowers are borne in one to three ( most often two ) dense spherical inflorescences on a pendulous stem, with male and female flowers on separate stems.

The inflorescences consist of short lateral shoots borne on stems of the previous year.

The flowers are borne in dense, short inflorescences at the top of the stems ; it is usually ( but not invariably ) dioecious with male and female flowers on separate plants.

Two other groups have similar inflorescences but a superior ovary, and have at times been put into separate families: the Agapanthaceae and the Alliaceae.

Berg and Rosselli state that the genus is characterized by some unusual traits: spathes fully enclosing the flower-bearing parts of the inflorescences until anthesis, patches of dense indumentums ( trichilia ) producing Mullerian ( food ) at the base of the petiole, and anthers becoming detached at anthesis ( Berg and Rosselli, 2005 ). Cecropia is most studied for its ecological role and association with ants.

The mostly unforked inflorescences are spikes, whose flowers open one at a time and usually only remain open for a short period.

They grow from the base of the leaves, one at a time, on up to four clustered inflorescences.

Heliconia solomonensis has green inflorescences and flowers that open at night, which is typical of bat pollinated plants.

The small and insignificant flowers are arranged in inflorescences of loose cymes, but also in rather dense heads or corymbs at the top of the stem or at its side.

The daisy-like flowers consists of disc florets and ray florets, growing solitary at the end of branches or sometimes in inflorescences of terminal corymbose cymes.

Depending on the species, a single inflorescence can be produced or a cluster of up to 11 inflorescences can be produced at a single time on short peduncles.

They are usually produced at the end of thin, often vertical inflorescences.

The inflorescences are terminal, meaning the stem terminates with an inflorescence, and often leaf opposed, meaning it emerges at the node with a leaf of a new axiallary stem.

They have large elliptic-oblong pseudobulbs with one or two leaves at the apex, lateral, unbranched many-flowered inflorescences with small floral bracts.

Flowers in this genus are born singly at the end of unbranching, leaf-like inflorescences which emerge from the leaf axes.

The inflorescences carry plantlets at the tips of their branches.

The inflorescences occur either as a terminal shoot at the top of the plant, or as terminal and axillary shoots arising from lower nodes, or rarely as only axillary shoots that pierce through the leaf sheath such as in Coleotrype and Amischotolype.

Plants of this genus produce single-flowered inflorescences, with the flowers often being quite large for the size of the plant, and occurring at any time of the year, though slightly more concentrated during summer in cultivation.

Close-up of an inflorescence The inflorescences are located at the top of the main branches and produced in dense umbels 4 cm long and 2 cm diameter.

In Southern Africa genera of Amaryllidaceae such as Boophane, Crossyne, and to a lesser extent Brunsvigia, bear inflorescences in the form of globular umbels with long, spoke-like pedicels, either effectively at ground level, or breaking off once the stems are dry and the seeds ripe.

Its yellow flowers are arranged into small, elongated round inflorescences 12-20 mm diameter, located at the end of the stem.

The flowers are greenish-white, with a slender tubular corolla long with five acute lobes, diameter when open at night, and are produced in cymose inflorescences.