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What (who) is indûment - definition
![Rust-colored indumentum on the underside of a [[bog Labrador tea]] (''Rhododendron groenlandicum'') leaf](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ledum groenlandicum 1-eheep (5097488087).jpg?width=200 "Rust-colored indumentum on the underside of a [[bog Labrador tea]] (''Rhododendron groenlandicum'') leaf")
![Caducous]] hairs on a developing pitcher of ''[[Nepenthes chaniana]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nepenthes chaniana 5.jpg?width=200 "Caducous]] hairs on a developing pitcher of ''[[Nepenthes chaniana]]''")
Wikipedia
In biology, an indumentum (Latin, literally: "garment") is a covering of trichomes (fine "hairs") on a plant or of bristles (rarely scales) of an insect.
In plants, indumentum types include:
- pubescent
- hirsute
- pilose
- lanate
- villous
- tomentose
- stellate
- scabrous
- scurfy
The indumentum on plants can have a wide variety of functions, including as anchorage in climbing plants (e.g., Galium aparine), in transpiration control, in water absorption (Tillandsia), the reflection of solar radiation, increasing water-repellency (e.g., in the aquatic fern Salvinia), in protection against insect predation, and in the trapping of insects (Drosera, Nepenthes, Stylosanthes).
The use of an indumentum on insects can also be pollen-related, as on bees, sensory like whiskers, or for varied other uses including adhesion and poison.
