Usually means: Scales protecting flowers or fruits.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (palea)

noun:  (botany) The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
noun:  (botany) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.
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