NOUN
- plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
How To Use epiphyte In A Sentence
- Emergent species like the strangler fig (Ficus dugandii) may reach heights of over 60 m while very abundant epiphytes such as Araceae sp and Cyclanthaceae sp. cover the lower parts of tree trunks and ferns help make up the dense understory. Western Ecuador moist forests
- He uses terms like commensalism and epiphyte, and primary and secondary forest, and crepuscular; and our brains scramble to keep up. Valerie Tarico: Madagascar: West Knows Best
- There are three basic types: lithophytes, which grow on rock surfaces; epiphytes, which are found on trees; and terrestrials, which live in the ground.
- He uses terms like commensalism and epiphyte, and primary and secondary forest, and crepuscular; and our brains scramble to keep up. Valerie Tarico: Madagascar: West Knows Best
- Sustained by the mist from the falls, it drips with epiphytes - mosses, ferns, aroids, orchids.
- Studying the ecophysiology of epiphytes almost exclusively at this level has severe shortcomings, because the reaction of an organ is certainly only a partial measure of the consequences of stress on entire individuals.
- The epiphytes hanging from the tree branches are either bromeliads or orchids.
- Bamboos, ferns, bromeliads, epiphytes and orchids will all thrive in this microclimate.
- Even if an intertidal zone existed, sea ice disturbance, as well as the unstable, gravelly substrate, would make it uninhabitable by intertidal benthos, epifauna, or epiphytes.
- Flowering epiphytes - bromeliads, orchids and cacti - are presented most commonly.
