fusiform
A scale that is widest at the middle and tapered toward the ends; apex sharply pointed or narrowly rounded; ranging from short and broad to long and slender.
A scale that is widest at the middle and tapered toward the ends; apex sharply pointed or narrowly rounded; ranging from short and broad to long and slender.
(1) A lamellar scale that is cuneate or gently flared distally; with a long thick pedicel that gradually merges into the squame; distal margin of squame cut off squarely or notched.
(2) A seta with a few branches arising beyond the basal third of the main stem.
A flattened and leaf-like seta; similar to some scales but lacking longitudinal ridges.
A seta with branches spreading out in a single plane from a short stem; in the case of some ventral brush setae the branches successively arise on one side of the stem; branches may be simple, barbed, aciculate or dendritic.
A sickle-shaped lamellar scale; the squame narrow and curved with a sharp or narrowly rounded apex.
A blade or filament with long branches of relatively equal diameter usually arising below the basal third of its length.
A seta branched to resemble a tree in form; having a stem-like part bearing irregular or dichotomous branches which may be repeatedly forked or branched in turn.
A filament with a short row of small rigid processes located at the side near the apex.
A seta with numerous moderately long, slender processes arising apically.
A seta with subdivisions radiating from the base, originating as divisions of the main stem or arising along the length of the main stem (rachis).
The descriptors used to name branched setae include bifurcated, dendritic, fan-like, forked, palmate, pectinate, plumose and stellate.