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chomophyte Bot.|ˈkəʊməʊfaɪt|
[G. (M. Oettli Beiträge z. Ökologie d. Felsflora 1905), f. Gr. χῶµα heaped-up earth + -o + -phyte.]
(See quot. 1938.)
1909tr. M. Oettli in E. Warming Oecology of Plants lxii. 240 Cryptogamia and Phanerogamia which only colonize rock where detritus has accumulated..in crevices or on the general surface of the rock. Plants of this latter type we term chomophytes. 1938Carpenter Ecol. Gloss. 56 Chomophyte, plants growing in fissures or crevices in rock, and on ledges where rock debris has accumulated. 1939A. G. Tansley Brit. Isl. & Veget. viii. xxxix. 799 On the Scottish mountains the arctic-alpine chomophyte communities reach their greatest development in the corries of the mica-schists. 1951Jrnl. Ecol. XXXIX. 65 In contrast to chasmophytes, chomophytes (which grow in layers of debris overlying lips and ledges of rock) are few and of local occurrence. |