areolate
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The skin on the flanks, especially the axilla, is areolate.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman
Thallus oblong with rounded lobes, distinctly areolate and porose, with imbricate sublunate scales beneath; gemmæ in crescent-shaped receptacles.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Veins areolate; fertile fronds taller, twelve to twenty inches high with narrowly linear divisions, the areoles and fruit-dots in a single row each side of the secondary midrib, the latter sunk in the tissues.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
Thallus large, forking, areolate, porose, with broad diffused midrib; gemmæ in a cup-shaped receptacle.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
This areolate dermal condition is present in all specimens and does not occur in other species of Osteocephalus.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman
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