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Aciculate Surface-Venation-Texture

Finely marked as with pin pricks, fine lines usually randomly arranged.

Alate Surface-Venation-Texture

Winged.

Alveolate Surface-Venation-Texture

Honey-combed.

Areolate Surface-Venation-Texture

Divided into many angular or squarish spaces.

Baccate Texture

Juicy and very succulent.

Bullate Surface-Venation-Texture

Puckered or blistered.

Canaliculate Surface-Venation-Texture

Longitudinally grooved, usually in relation to petioles or midribs.

Cancellate or Clathrate Surface-Venation-Texture

Latticed.

Carnose or Sarcous Texture

Fleshy.

Cartilaginous Texture

Hard and tough but flexible.

Ceraceous Texture

Waxy.

Chartaceous Texture

Papery, opaque and thin.

Coriaceous Texture

Thick and leathery.

Corneous Texture

Horny.

Corrugate Surface-Venation-Texture

Ridged.

Costate Surface-Venation-Texture

Coarsely ribbed.

Crustaceous Texture

Hard, thin, and brittle.

Diaphanous Texture

Translucent.

Fenestrate Surface-Venation-Texture

With windowlike holes through the leaves or other structures.

Fibrous Texture

Having loose, woody fibers.

Flaccid Texture

Lax and weak.

Flexuous Surface-Venation-Texture

Coarsely undulate with folds at right angles to long axis.

Foveolate Surface-Venation-Texture

Pitted.

Gelatinous Texture

Jellylike; soft and quivery.

Herbaceous Texture

Soft and succulent.

Hyaline Texture

Thin and translucent or transparent.

Incrassate Texture

Thickened.

Indurate Texture

Hardened.

Ligneous Texture

Woody.

Membranous Texture

Thin and semi-translucent; membrane-like.

Osseous Texture

Bony.

Pannose or Felted Texture

With matted, feltlike layer of trichomes (hairs); with a felty texture.Pannose or Felted Texture

Pellucid Texture

Clear, transparent.

Plicate or Plaited Surface-Venation-Texture

Fluted, longitudinally folded.

Punctate Surface-Venation-Texture

Covered with minute impressions or depressions.

Pustulate Surface-Venation-Texture

With scattered blisterlike swellings.

Reticulate Surface-Venation-Texture

Netted.

Ribbed Surface-Venation-Texture

With longitudinal nerves.

Ringed Surface-Venation-Texture

With old bud scale scar rings.

Rugose Surface-Venation-Texture

Covered with coarse reticulate lines.

Ruminate Surface-Venation-Texture

Coarsely wrinkled, appearing as chewed.

Scarious Texture

Thin and dry, appearing shriveled.

Scarred Surface-Venation-Texture

With old leaf base, stipular and/or branch scar regions.

Sclerous Texture

Hard.

Smooth or Plane Surface-Venation-Texture

Without configuration.

Spongy Texture

Cellular; sponge-like.

Striate Surface-Venation-Texture

With longitudinal lines.Striate Surface-Venation-Texture

Suberous Texture

Corky.

Suffrutescent Texture

Woody basally, herbaceous apically.

Sulcate Surface-Venation-Texture

With longitudinal grooves.

Texture

Characteristic physical condition or consistency of an organ or its parts.

Tortuous Surface-Venation-Texture

Having the surface variously twisted.

Woody Texture

Hard and lignified.

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