Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having very short, soft hairs; puberulent.
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Examples
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The _first glume_ is glabrous or rarely puberulous, margins incurved, obtuse, 9 - to
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spikes or branches are slender, alternate, 1 to 2-1/2 inches, becoming shorter upwards, thickened and puberulous at the base, and the secondary rachis is flexuous, grooved, angular, and obscurely pubescent.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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_Nodes_ usually glabrous but sometimes also puberulous.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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_Involucels_ usually with two, rarely three spikelets, loosely imbricate, rounded at the base; the inner bristles are erect, dorsally flat, subulate-lanceolate, puberulous and with thickened margins, about 1/8 inch long.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _inflorescence_ is a raceme of spikes, varying from 1-1/2 to 3-1/2 inches, with the spikes mostly densely arranged, though occasionally distant and not close-set, on a long; slender, puberulous or scaberulous peduncle; _rachis_ is flexuous, flattened, grooved and scaberulous.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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"The trees of D. turbinatus are lofty, growing 30-45m tall. The bark is gray or dark brown, and is shallowly longitudinally fissured and flaky. Branchlets are glabrescent. The leaf buds are falcate, with both buds and young twigs densely gray and puberulous. The stipules are 2–6 cm, densely, shortly dark grayish or dark yellow puberulous; the petiole is 2–3 cm, densely gray puberulous or glabrescent; the leaf blade is ovate-oblong, 20-30 × 8–13 cm, leathery, glabrous or sparsely stellate pubescent, lateral veins are in 15-20 pairs conspicuously raised abaxially, base rounded or somewhat cordate, margin entire or sometimes sinuate, apex acuminate or acute."
June 22, 2015