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Leaves

leaf or leaflet color and/ or vestiture below

arachnoid

Cobwebby.arachnoid

barbed

With short, rigid reflexed bristles or processes.barbed

bearded

With long trichomes (hairs) usually in a tuft, line or zone.bearded

bristly

Beset with bristles; covered with stiff, strong trichomes (hairs).bristly

canescent

Covered with dense, fine grayish-white trichomes (hairs).canescent

ciliate

With conspicuous trichomes (hairs) protruding from margins.ciliate

comose

With a tuft of trichomes (hairs), usually apical.comose

floccose

Covered with dense, appressed trichomes (hairs) in patches or tufts.floccose

glabrous

Smooth; devoid of trichomes (hairs).glabrous

glaucous

Covered with a bloom or smooth, waxy coating.

glochidiate

With barbed trichomes (hairs), glochids, usually in tufts.glochidiate

hirsute

Covered with long, rather stiff trichomes (hairs).hirsute

hispid

Covered with very long, stiff trichomes (hairs).hispid

lepidote

Covered with minute scales.lepidote

pannose

With matted, feltlike layer of trichomes (hairs); with a felty texture.pannose

papillose

Covered with minute tubercles.papillose

puberulent

Minutely pubescent.puberulent

sericeous

With long, silky trichomes (hairs), usually appressed.sericeous

setose

Having setae or bristlelike trichomes (hairs).setose

stipitate glandular

strigose

Covered with sharp, coarse, bent trichomes (hairs) usually with a bulbous base.strigose

tomentose

Covered with dense, interwoven trichomes (hairs).tomentose

urent

With erect, usually long trichomes (hairs) that produce irritation when touched.urent

velutinous

Covered with dense, straight, long and soft trichomes (hairs); pile-like.velutinous

villous

Covered with long, soft, crooked trichomes (hairs).villous

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