Lachenalia trichophylla leaf detail

Seen up close, the Lachenalia trichophylla leaf is covered in sparse, long hairs (or bristles) grown on tubercle bases, raised from the surface.

More numerous shorter hairs, white and stellate, are three- to five-branched near the hair tips. The stellate hairs grow on the flat, dark green blade surface that is densely white-mottled. These stellate hairs sometimes form short, haphazard rows (Grenier, 2019; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; JSTOR; www.pacificbulbsociety.org).