1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 167. Apetalous dicotyledons, with herbaceous ebracteate calyxes.
1870. Bentley, Bot., 181. When bracts are absent altogether, such plants are said to be ebracteated.
1882. Vines, Sachs Bot., 621. The ebracteate flowers stand on the rachis of the inflorescence.