palea

The upper of the two bracts that enclose each floret in a grass spikelet.

A small bract at the base of a disc floret in some plants of the composite family.

In annelids, a flattened seta, as in Sabellaria.

In botany:

One of the chaff-like bracts or scales subtending the individual flowers in the heads of many Compositæ chaff.

The scales on the stems of certain ferns.

The scale-like, usually membranaceous organ in the flowers of grasses which is situated upon a secondary axis in the axil of the flowering glume and envelops the stamens and pistil. It is always bicarinate and is usually bidentate. Also called palet.

In ornithology, a fleshy pendulous skin of the chin or throat, as the dewlap or wattle of the turkey.

The interior chaff or husk of grasses.