Calyx encloses an unopened flower bud. 花萼围绕在花瓣外层的一圈。
Capsule subglobose,1-1.2 cm in diameter, calyx-tube as long as2/3 of capsule. 蒴果近球形,直径1-1.2厘米,萼筒长达蒴果的2/。
Capsule ovoid,6-8 mm long, more or less glandular hairy, coarsely tuberculate; persistent calyx lobes often revolute and shrinking. 蒴果卵圆形,长6-8毫米,多少被腺毛,有粗糙的小疣状凸起;宿存花萼裂片常反卷和皱缩。
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[ noun ] (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green <noun.plant>
Calyx \Ca"lyx\ (k[=a]"l[i^]ks; 277), n.; pl. E. {Calyxes} (k[=a]"l[i^]ks*[e^]z), L. {Calyces} (k[a^]l"[i^]*s[=e]z). [L. calyx, -ycis, fr. Gr. ka`lyx husk, shell, calyx, from the root of kaly`ptein to cover, conceal. Cf. {Chalice Helmet}.] 1. (Bot.) The covering of a flower. See {Flower}.
Note: The calyx is usually green and foliaceous, but becomes delicate and petaloid in such flowers as the anemone and the four-o'clock. Each leaf of the calyx is called a sepal.
2. (Anat.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papill[ae].