Glossary of Plant Morphology Terms - Epidermis and Periderm Texture

Epidermis and Periderm Texture

  • Acanceous – being prickly.
  • Acantha – a prickle or spine.
  • Acanthocarpus – fruits are spiny.
  • Acanthocladous – the branches are spiny.
  • Aculeate – having a covering of prickles or needle-like growth.
    • Aculeolate – having spine-like processes.
  • Aden – a gland.
    • Adenoid – gland like.
    • Adenophore – a stalk that supports a gland.
    • Adenophyllous – leaves with glands.
  • Arachnoid – having a cobwebby appearance with entangled hairs.
  • Bloom – the waxy coating that covers some plants.
  • Canescent – with gray pubescence.
  • Ciliate – with a fringe of marginal hairs.
  • Coriaceouse – with a tough or leathery texture.
  • Fimbriate – finely cut into fringes, the edge of a frilly petal or leaf.
  • Floccose –
  • Glabrate –
  • Glabrous – smooth without any pubescences at all.
  • Glandular –
  • Glandular-punctate – covered across the surface with glands.
  • Hirsute – with long shaggy hairs, often stiff or bristly to the touch.
  • Lanate – with woolly hairs. Thick wool like hairs.
  • Verrucose – with a wart surface, with low rounded bumps.
  • Villose – covered with fine long hairs that are not matted.
    • Villosity – villous indument.

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