How To Use epiphytic In A Sentence
- Unlike many plants that grow in trees, epiphytic orchids are not parasites and don't harm the plants on which they grow.
- Dyssochroma belongs in the tribe Juanulloeae, a group composed of six genera of poorly known, rarely collected epiphytic shrubs and small trees distributed over the Neotropics.
- We conclude that leaf physiology has a greater impact on plant carbon gain than leaf and plant morphology in this epiphytic bromeliad.
- Habitat associations of epiphytic lichens in managed and unmanaged forest stands in Nova Scotia
- Many succulents possess CAM, as do semisucculents such as some yuccas, epiphytic (growing on trees or rocks) orchids, and xerophytic (arid-adapted) bromeliads. Adaptations of desert plants
- Microstylis and its relatives, although often growing on the ground, have pseudobulbs (probably indicating epiphytic origins) and thus are really semi-terrestrial.
- He found what might serve-a certain epiphytic orchid that nestled in the crotch formed by the great lower limbs of an emergent. Shopgirls
- She loves ascending into the canopies of giant Sitka Spruces, Western Hemlocks and Western Red Cedars to collect insects and epiphytic lichens. Contributor: Caitlin McDonough
- Although often described as a benthic or epiphytic species, A. carterae also thrives in the plankton of coastal embayments and estuaries, possibly connected with a diurnal vertical migration.
- The evolution of pollination strategies in epiphytic flowering plants have been strongly influenced by their habitat and spatial distribution.