A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

floccosus,-a,-um (adj.A): floccose, flocculent, “covered with close hairs, which fall away in little tufts” (Lindley); “floccy, floccosa. Covered with hair matted together which come off in small lumps. Verbascum floccosum” “flock-like, resembling flocks of wool” (S.Gray), “full of flocks or tufts of wool or soft hairs; clothed with locks or flocks of soft hair or wool” (Fernald 1950); “wooly” (Stearn 1996); (fungi) “(of the pileus or the stipe) loose cottony or downy-woolly and more or less tufted like cotton flannel” (S&D); (in Algae) having appearance of matted woolly hairs; cf. lanatus,-a,-um (adj.A), lanosus,-a,-um (adj.A), lanose, woolly; cf. arachnoideus,-a,-um (adj.A), araneosus,-a,-um (adj.A), arachnoid, resembling cobweb in appearance, of slender entangled hairs; cf. tufted;

- flores albi, alabasteis floccosis (B&H), flowers white, with floccose buds.

- herbae floccoso-tomentosae, herbs floccose-tomentose.

- pileus exacte cretaceus, squamulis seu flocculis mollibus pilosis veluti gossypinis aequaliter obsitus (S&A), the pileus is strictly chalk-white, equally covered with squamules or tufted with soft hairs as if cottony.

- ramis cymisque floccoso-tomenlosis (DeCandolle), with the branches and cymes wooly-tomentose.

- caule fruticoso pube floccosa subtomentoso (DeCandolle), with the stem shrubby, somewhat tomentose with a flocked pubescence.

floccoso-lepidotus,-a,-um (adj.A): floccose and also scaly, with small scurfy scales.

floccoso-tomentosus,-a,-um (adj.A): floccosely tomentose, “down disposed in little tufts” (Paxton).

Floccose volva: volva,-ae (s.f.I) floccosa: (in fungi) “a ‘volva’ that forms floccose layers on the entire ‘cap’ or parts of it (see Bas, 1969)” (S&D).

Mycelium,-ii (s.n.II) floccosum (adj.A), abl.sg. mycelio floccoso: fibrous mycelium (Jackson); cf. mycelium filamentosum, “the thread-like loose felting of hyphae” (Jackson); see mycelium.

Pelargonium FLOCCOSUM foliis cordatis 3-partitis utrinque villoso-pilosis, (DeCandolle), with the leaves cordate, 3-parted on both sides villous-pilose.

Astrotriche floccosa; Phlomis floccosa; Tragopogon flosscosus; Verbascum floccosum; [alga] Callithamnion floccosum, [alga] Conferva floccosa, Floc-like Crowsilk (S. Gray); [fungus] Byssus floccosa.