xerophyte

How To Use xerophyte In A Sentence

• The species is said to be hygrophil, according to the Illustrated Guide, in Black River Gorges also a xerophyte (drought-tolerant) subspecies, Labourdonnaisia revoluta can be found. WN.com - Photown News
• All succulents are xerophytes, using their thick, fleshy leaves or stems to store moisture. Times, Sunday Times
• High stomatal frequencies are usually characteristic of leaves of xerophytes.
• The plants that are adapted for living in these habitats are called xerophytes, mesophytes, and hydrophytes, respectively.
• As she put names to the species around us - lovely names, like pickleweed and coyote melon, Mormon tea and mallow - I imagined them frizzling to extinction on the hillside, leaving a last few, spiny xerophytes to subsist on bare shale.
• certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements
• The relatively small and thick leaves, the multilayered mesophyll, the thick outermost epidermal cell walls and the small leaf ICS percentage of C. spinosa constitute features of xerophytes.
• The xerophytes appeared to be different from common habitat. Short of internode; litter and thick of twigs.
• Indeed, this is the explanation offered by the classical and the majority of the modern textbooks on plant physiology or ecology especially when discussing adaptation of xerophytes to their habitat.
• Ferns generally lack some of the more typical adaptations of xerophytes, such as a thick hypodermis, sunken stomata, and CAM photosynthesis.