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Pedicel indument

Pedicel indument

Trichome cover types or type of hairy cover (vestiture or indument), for the flower stalk (pedicel).

arachnoid

Cobwebby.arachnoid

bullate

Puckered or blistered.

canescent

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

channeled

With a longitudinal groove.

echinate

Covered with spines.echinate

floccose

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

fluted

Fluted, longitudinally folded.

hirsute

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

hirsutulous

Minutely hirsute.

hispid

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

hispidulous

Approaching hispid, minutely hispid.

lanate

Covered with long, intertwined trichomes (hairs), cottony.

lanuginous

Cottony, similar to lanate but trichomes (hairs) shorter.

lepidote

Covered with minute scales.lepidote

muricate

Covered with short, hard protuberances.muricate

muriculate

Minutely muricate.

paleaceous

With small membranous scales, chaffy.

pannose

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

pilose

With soft, shaggy trichomes (hairs).pilose

puberulent

Minutely pubescent.puberulent

pubescent

Covered with dense or scattered trichomes (hairs), usually with straight, slender trichomes.

pustulose

With scattered blisterlike swellings.

scaberulose

Approaching scabrous.scaberulose

scurfy

With exfoliating scaly incrustations.scurfy

sericeous

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

setose

Having setae or bristlelike trichomes (hairs).setose

striate

With longitudinal lines.striate

strigillose

Diminutive of strigose.

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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