scarious

adjective3

1. •
   thin, dry, membranous, and not green

   • A polymorphous plant, with larger (frequently three lines in diameter), more globose and racemose heads, and more scarious involucres than any form of A. vulgaris. — 1838
2. •
   thin, dry, membranous

   • Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning. — 1979
3. •
   scaly, scurfy