Scaly Surfaces

Sqamulose
Small soft scales

Squarrose
 Erect or recurved scales

Felty Scales

Appressed Scales

Concentric
 scales

Warts

Spinose
 Spiny

Areolate
Broken up

Areolate

Smooth Surfaces and
 Textures

Rivulose

Gelatinous

Glutinous
Slimy & Stretchy

Viscid
Slimy

Ceraceous
Waxy

Lacunose
Pitted

Granulose

Pruinose
Floury

Transluscent-striate

Glandular
 Small spots
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Atomate: Finely powdered surface

Clathrate: Latticed
 Complanate: flat

 Connate: joined by growth

 Echinulate: Small pointed  spines

 Echinate: Pointed spines
 Entire: Smooth margin

floccose: with cottony fibrils

hirsute : Coarse, rough, longish hairs hoary: short, close, interwoven hairs
:, translucent

 hygrophanous: changing colour when dry

 Imbricate: Overlapping like root tiles

 labiate: lobed

 lobulate:  with small lobes

 Micaceous: Covered with glistening pinheads

 pilose: Hairy

 Pruinose: frosty or flour like surface

 Pulverulent: Power covered


 reticulate: net like

 rugose: wrinkled

 Scabrous: Rough

 Sulcate: grooved