A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

validus,-a,-um (adj.A): strong, stout, robust-growing, powerful; (of the body) sound, healthy, well; (of medicines) strong, powerful, active; “strong, well-developed” (Stearn 1996); (of slopes) ‘steep;’ compar. validior,-ius (adj.B); superl. validissimus,-a,-um (adj.A); also used as 'legitimate' in the sense of valid, q.v.; see stout; see stout, vigorous; opp. exiguus,-a,-um (adj.A), (of the body) small, little, weak, short, poor, mean [meager]; opp. gracilis,-e (adj.B), slender, slight, slim;

- [hepatic] capsula magna plus 3 mm. longa purpurea. Elateres attenuati 200 um spiris duplicatis validis teretibus laxe tortis (Steph.), the capsule large, more than 3 mm. long, purple. The elaters narrow, 200 um, loosely twisted into paired, terete, well-developed spirals.

- nervo valido flavido stricto in mucronem brevissimum attenuato, with a strong nerve yellowish straight abbreviated into a very short mucro.

- thallus rhizinis validis, thallus with stout rhizines.

- rhizomatibus validis, with stout rhizomes.

- sub lente valido, under a strong lens.

- in declivibus validis inter Guadas et Villeta, on steep slopes between Guadas and Villeta.

- TRUNCUS e basi validiuscula gracilescente elongatus, longitudine varius, teres, albicans; de summitate dilatatus, crateris in formam (Hedwig), the trunk elongated from a somewhat more robust base, becoming gracillescent [i.e. slight, slender], variable in length, rounded-cylindric [i.e. terete], whitish, dilated from the summit into the shape of a crater [i.e. cup or bowl].

vanishing: evanescens,-entis (part.B), evanidus,-a,-um (adj.A); see disappearing; see ephemeral;

- nervo centrali sub apice evanido, midrib vanishing before reaching the apex.

- costa valida apicem versus evanida, costa strong disappearing toward the apex.

NOTE: evanidinervius,-a,-um (adj.A), evanidinervis,-e (adj.B): with nerves becoming faint and disappearing before reaching the margin.