Indument

In botany, the totality of all hairs on a plant or part of a plant is called indument , hairiness or coat . The term goes back to the Latin word indumentum for "clothing, coating" and was introduced into botany by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1800 in his attempt to systematically complete terminology for the animal and plant kingdoms .

photos

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  Compass needle hairs and some three-pointed star hairs on gray-gold lacquer

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  Star hair indument on steppe stone herb

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  Glandular hairs on finger saxifrage

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  Branched hair on auricular rockcress

proof

1. ^ Gerhard Wagenitz : Dictionary of Botany. Morphology, anatomy, taxonomy, evolution. With English-German and French-German registers . 2nd expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937872-94-0 , pp. 157 (licensed edition 2003).