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- Vein
- The vascular bundles or veins or ribs of the blades, glumes, lemmas, and paleas.
- Velvety
- A vestiture of thick medium length hairs.
- Vernal
- Growth form for spring and early summer.
- Verrucose
- Covered with warty protuberances.
- Verticil
- A whorl of parts arising from a common point or around an axis.
- Verticillate
- Having branches or flowers arranged in whorls at two or more levels of an inflorescence.
- Vestigial
- Not fully developed; rudimentary.
- Verification
- Matching unknown but keyed specimen with known material in the herbaium.
- Vestiture
- Surface coverings (e.g., hairs, or wax, or scales).
- Villous
- Long, soft, unmatted hairs; shaggy.
- Viscid
- Sticky, glutinous.
- Voucher specimen
- An herbarium specimen that documents the morphology and identification for chromosome, ecological & anatomical studies, plant breeding (parents and progeny), and taxonomy.