A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

wool-: indicating wool or a woolly texture, but may also indicate roughness, a hairy or shaggy texture or appearance;

1. in L. comp., lani-, lano-, lanos-;

- lanosantherus, with woolly anthers [the 's' seems to be from 'lanosus', lanos-antherus, with the connecting vowel elided]

2. - in Gk. & L. comp. mall-, mallo-;

- mallocaulos,-a,-on, with woolly stem; mallocephalus, with wooly head; mallococcus, downy fruited; malloneurus, with downy nerve or costa; mallophorus, wool-bearing; mallophyllus, with downy leaves; mallopodus, with downy stalk.

3. - in Gk. comp., eri-, erio-, lasio-, lachn-, lachno-;

NOTE: see dasy-,-dasyus,-a,-um (adj.A): in Gk. comp., shaggy, thickly or markedly hairy.

-lasiantherus, with woolly anthers [note the elision of the 'o' before a vowel, 'a']; eriocarpus and lasiocarpus, with wooly fruits.

-lachnanthus, wooly-flowered; lachnocarpus, wooly-fruited; lachnophyllus, with wooly leaves; lachnosepalus, with wooly-sepals; lachnospermus, with wooly seeds.

Rubus phoenicolasius, phoenic -o- lasios, hairy, wooly, in reference to the long gland-tipped purple-red hairs characteristic of the shrub.