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Meaning of "tomentose"
Tomentose means covered with densely matted or tangled hairs. This term is often used in botany to describe the texture of plant leaves
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- covered in (often matted) hairs
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There are tomentose hairs in much of these grooves.
Leaves are distinctly glandular and thinly tomentose.
Their underside is tomentose covered with hair.
It usually ranges from sparsely pubescent to densely tomentose.
It is more dense and tomentose at the lateral aspects.
The twigs are reddish brown tomentose.
The leaves are densely tomentose and glandular hairs are not evident.
Pistillate flowers borne on slender tomentose peduncles.
Inner scales are very tomentose and enlarge with the growing shoot.
The young branches are subquadrangular and tomentose.
It is covered elsewhere in pale tomentose hairs which darken medially.
The texture of the cap surface is smooth to very finely tomentose.
Filaments tomentose at base.
Branchlets are more or less tomentose.
The branches are brown and tomentose when young, less hairy with age.
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Inflorescences are rusty tomentose.
Tomentose Densely pubescent with matted, soft white woolly hairs.
It is a slender tomentose climber.
Tomentulose Minutely or only slightly tomentose.
They are tomentose ( hairy ) and look like little tan leaves.
Tepals are minutely tomentose.
They are leathery, and tomentose ( densely short-hairy ) beneath.
The flower buds are ovoid and covered in a short tomentose pubescence.
Outside and inside the reddish, tomentose acorn has a wall about 3 mm thick.
Plants of the Eastern Cape are more tomentose.
The young branches are quadrangular, tomentose only at the apex.
The young branches are subquadrangular, yellowish, the youngest sections tomentose.
Leucophyta brownii is a small, rounded shrub with tangled tomentose branchlets that give it a silvery appearance.
When a plant surface is covered with tiny hairs, it is called tomentose.
At flowering, the rosettes produce slender tomentose stalks up to 1 m in height Fig.
The upper surface of fronds is glabrate, while the lower surface may be tomentose.
The leaves are pinnate, 2 m long, and borne on a tomentose petiole, sparsely to densely spiny.
Branchlets, with those more than one year old glabrescent, gray tomentose when young.
The flowers are tomentose.
Leaves are tufted ( fascicled ) or opposite, and densely tomentose and grey.
The leaves are deciduous, toothed, pointed, tomentose and glandular.
The branchlets are quadrangular, and winged, stellate tomentose when young.
The leaves are mid-green above, and grey tomentose below.
It has thin, mottled grey, smooth or grooved bark, and tomentose young stems.
The opposite lanceolate leaves are 7-13 cm long, tomentose beneath when young.
