squarrose

adjective

1. Rough or scaly.

2. Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; said of a calyx or stem.

3. Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.

4. Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; said of a shell.