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Leaves

leaf or leaflet color and/ or vestiture below

arachnoid	Cobwebby.
barbed	With short, rigid reflexed bristles or processes.
bearded	With long trichomes (hairs) usually in a tuft, line or zone.
bristly	Beset with bristles; covered with stiff, strong trichomes (hairs).
canescent	Covered with dense, fine grayish-white trichomes (hairs).
ciliate	With conspicuous trichomes (hairs) protruding from margins.
comose	With a tuft of trichomes (hairs), usually apical.
floccose	Covered with dense, appressed trichomes (hairs) in patches or tufts.
glabrous	Smooth; devoid of trichomes (hairs).
glaucous	Covered with a bloom or smooth, waxy coating.
glochidiate	With barbed trichomes (hairs), glochids, usually in tufts.
hirsute	Covered with long, rather stiff trichomes (hairs).
hispid	Covered with very long, stiff trichomes (hairs).
lepidote	Covered with minute scales.
pannose	With matted, feltlike layer of trichomes (hairs); with a felty texture.
papillose	Covered with minute tubercles.
puberulent	Minutely pubescent.
sericeous	With long, silky trichomes (hairs), usually appressed.
setose	Having setae or bristlelike trichomes (hairs).
stipitate glandular
strigose	Covered with sharp, coarse, bent trichomes (hairs) usually with a bulbous base.
tomentose	Covered with dense, interwoven trichomes (hairs).
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).