A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

reticulatus,-a,-um (adj.A), retiformis,-e (adj.B), (obsol.) retiferus,-a,-um (adj.A), retiger,-gera,-gerum (adj.A), bearing a net, network, a rete or reticulum; (reticulatus) “netted like network, as in certain cell-thickenings” (Jackson); “netted, having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network;; involving repeated intercrossing between a number of lines” (WIII) [> L. reticulum,-i (s.n.II), q.v. + -atus].

Also prefix reti- (in L. comp.): “having the appearance of network” (Lindley): netted, as in veining, q.v.; reticulate, marked with a network, netted, “covered with reticulated lines which project a little; any arrangement of veins which irregularly anastomose” (Lindley); “having lines intercrossed: forming or formed like a network or a web” (WIII); (in fungi) (of the surface of the pileus, stipe, spores, etc.) marked by lines, veins, or ridges which cross one another as in a net; (of the stipe of Boletaceae) having a network resulting from the attachment of the tubes to the stipe in early stages of development of the fruit body” (S&D); cf. cancellatus,-a,-um (part.A), q.v., latticed, reticulate; like a network, as the fruit-body of Clathrus; see anastomosans,-antis (part.B); cf. areolatus,-a,-um (adj.A), areolate, marked out into small usually angular spaces; in L. comp., reti-, q.v.; in Gk. comp., dicty-, q.v.; see checkered, tesselate; see anastomosans,-antis (part.B);

- [Adonis] carpellis basi tuberculato dentatis reticulatis in spicam elongatam continuam digestis (DeCandolle): with the carpels at the base tuberculate-dentate, arranged into an elongate, continuous spike.

- cormus tunicis demum in fibras reticulatas brunneas solutis, corm with tunics as length into brown reticulate fibers breaking up.

- folia utrinque et praesertim subtus manifeste reticulata, leaves on both sides and especially below obviously reticulate (Stearn).

- nervis reticulato-anastomosantibus, with nerves reticulate-anastomosing (joining together).

- [algae] fila uncialia vel ultra, tenuissima, simplicia, raro ramosa, gelatinosa, rosea, membrana tenuissima & tenuissime reticulata conflata (Agardh), the filaments an inch long or more, very delicate, unbranched, rarely branched, gelatinous, rose-colored, united together by a very thin membrane and very thinly reticulated.

- [moss] seminula perquam exigua, vitris maxime augentibus superficiem reticulatam habere videntur (Hedwig), the exceedingly small seedlets [i.e. spores], are seen by the highest magnifying glasses to possess a reticulate surface.

- [fungi] pileus in nostris e gilvo dilute fuligineus: stipes concolor, nunc distinctius, nunc obsoletius reticulatus (S&A), the pileus in our [sc. species] to pale sooty-brown from yellowish tan: the stipe of the same color, sometimes more distinctly, sometimes more obscurely reticulate.

NOTE: each little area of the network is an areole, or ‘little area:’ areola,-ae (s.f.I), q.v.

NOTE: venosus,-a,-um (adj.A): venous, “having many branched veins, as in reticulated leaves” (Lindley).

reticulato-pinnivenia: pinnate-veined in the manner of a reticulum or net;

- folia minora uninervia v. reticulato- pennivenia, nunc 0 (B&H), the leaves smaller, with one nerve or reticulate-pinnate-nerved, sometimes none.

reticulato-venosus,-a,-um (adj.A), reticulate-nervosus, retinervis,-e (adj.B), retinervius,-a,-um (adj.A): net-veined, reticulate-veined; ‘having veins with the appearance of network (Lindley);

- foliolis subtiliter reticulato-venosis lineólas punctave nulla pellucida gerentibus (F. Mueller), with the leaflets finely reticulate-veined bearing no little pellucid lines or dots.

semireticulatus,-a,-um (adj.A) half-netted, “when of several layers of anything, the outer one only is netted; as in the roots of Gladiolus communis” (Lindley); “when one of several layers is netted, the others membranous” (Jackson).