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Stems

Stem vestiture and/or surface

Trichome cover types, or type of hairy cover.

aculeate	With prickles.
arachnoid	Cobwebby.
barbed	With short, rigid reflexed bristles or processes.
bristly	Beset with bristles; covered with stiff, strong trichomes (hairs).
canescent	Covered with dense, fine grayish-white trichomes (hairs).
ciliate	With tiny or small marginal trichomes (hairs).
comose	With a tuft of trichomes (hairs).
echinate	Covered with spines.
floccose	Covered with dense, appressed trichomes (hairs) in patches or tufts.
glabrescent	Becoming glabrous.
glabrous	Smooth; devoid of trichomes (hairs).
glandular	Covered with minute, blackish to translucent glands; covered with secretory or excretory trichomes (hairs).
glaucous	Covered with a bloom or smooth, waxy coating.
glochidiate	With barbed trichomes (hairs), glochids, usually in tufts.
glutinous	Having a shiny, sticky surface.
granular	Finely mealy, covered with small granules.
greasy	Slick, oily, slippery to touch.
hirsute	Covered with long, rather stiff trichomes (hairs).
hispid	Covered with very long, stiff trichomes (hairs).
lepidote	Covered with minute scales.
mucilaginous	Gummy or gelatinous.
muricate	Covered with short, hard protuberances.
muriculate	Minutely muricate.
opaque	With a dull surface.
pannose	With matted, feltlike layer of trichomes (hairs); with a felty texture.
papillose	Covered with minute tubercles.
pruinose, frosted or sebiferous	With a heavy wax coat.
puberulent	Minutely pubescent.
pulverulent	Covered with fine, powdery wax granules.
ramentaceous	Having many thin scales, as on the epidermis of some ferns.
resinosus	Having a yellowish, sticky, exudate.
roridulate or dewy	Covered with waxy platelets, appearing dewy.
scaberulent	Approaching scabrous.
scabrous	Having a harsh surface.
sericeous	With long, silky trichomes (hairs), usually appressed.
setose	Having setae or bristlelike trichomes (hairs).
shining, nitid or laevigate	Lustrous, polished.
spiculate	With crystals in or on the surface.
squamose	Having coarse scales.
strigose	Covered with sharp, coarse, bent trichomes (hairs) usually with a bulbous base.
tomentose	Covered with dense, interwoven trichomes (hairs).
tuberculate or verrucose	With a warty surface.
urent	With erect, usually long trichomes (hairs) that produce irritation when touched.
velutinous	Covered with dense, straight, long and soft trichomes (hairs); pile-like.
villous	Covered with long, soft, crooked trichomes (hairs).
viscid	Sticky or glutinous.