FW: Words for Hairs

[Mary Barkworth]

>From Rudi Schmid (to whom my sincere thanks). I have posted to TAXACOM as
others have asked me about it.  Indumentum is, I suspect, a term that is
more in vogue in other English-speaking countries.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rudi Schmid [mailto:schmid at socrates.berkeley.edu]
Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 1:28 PM
To: Mary Barkworth
Subject: Re: Words for Hairs


About key words: "hairs" and pubescence" don't work for the title. I
forgot about "indumentum" and retrieved this via a more roundabout way.
There is a lesson in this about using obscure words in titles and keywords!

                 FROM _Taxon_ 38: 76 (February 1989)
Hewson, H. J., Plant indumentum: A handbook of terminology, _Australian
Flora and Fauna Series,_ no. 9, pp. i-vii, 1-27, 1988, ISSN 0813-6726, ISBN
0-644-50456-0, Aust$4.95 (from Australian Government Publishing Service, Box
84, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601). [Intended esp. for writers of the _Flora of
Australia_ to standardize terminology. _Contents:_ intro; basic concepts;
description formula; glossary and key to terms; biblio.; index. Each term is
clearly described and figured, usually with diminutive and adjectival forms
of the term, derivation of the term, examples. "The use of plain English
descriptive terminology is encouraged, e.g. 'bifid T-shaped trichome' is
preferred to 'Malpighiaceous' (p. 1).]

                FROM _Taxon_ 48: 627-629 (August 1999)
              Reviews of volumes 1 (ed. 2), 17B, 28, 48
     [The glossaries in volumes 1 and 48 (plus those on lichens and fungi
in other volumes) are viewable at
            www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/flora/otherpub/index.htm.]

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