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What the AI provided is incorrect for daylilies but would have been correct for
some trees and shrubs. Cataphylls are typically the bud scales on the outside of the buds (usually overwintering) of some deciduous trees and shrubs. Buds that do not have specialized bud scales or cataphylls are described as "naked resting buds". Cataphylls are mentioned in "Naked resting bud morphologies and their taxonomic and geographic distributions in temperate, woody floras"
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wile...
Daylilies do not have true bud scales even on their overwintering buds.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany (can be searched and read online at the Internet Archive) defines bract as "A leaf, usually much reduced, which subtends a flower or inflorescence in its axis".
The Penguin Dictionary of Botany (also can be searched and read online at the Internet Archive) defines bract as "A leaflike organ subtending an inflorescence".
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Botany (ditto) defines bract as "A small atypical leaf subtending a flower-bud in its axil.
As these are inflorescences and flower buds the appropriate term would seem to be bracts.
