Australian Biological Resources Study
Compiled by A.McCusker
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| alveolate: pitted or honeycombed on the surface.
colliculate: covered with small, rounded or hillock-like elevations (pl. n. colliculae). echinate: bearing stiff, stout, prickly hairs. foveate: pitted. muricate: rough on the surface; covered with short, hard tubercles or hard outgrowths of the epidermis. papilla: a small, elongated protuberance on the surface of an organ, usually an extension of one epidermal cell. adj. papillose. reticulate: forming a network. spine: a stiff, sharp-pointed structure, formed by modification of a plant organ, e.g. a lateral branch or a stipule. striate: striped with parallel longitudinal lines or ridges. tuberculate: covered with tubercles. |
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