chomophyten.

/ˈkəʊməʊfʌɪt/

Etymology: German (M. Oettli Beiträge z. Ökologie d. Felsflora 1905), < Greek χῶμα heaped-up earth + -o suffix + -phyte comb. form.

Botany.

(See quot. 1938.)

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the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > growing on or among stone or rock

rock herb1626

rock plant1694

rupestral1847

ruderal1873

stone-plant1883

lithophyte1895

chasmophyte1900

vertical1902

chomophyte1909

1909 P. Groom & I. B. Balfour tr. M. Oettli in E. Warming Oecol. 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.

1938 J. R. Carpenter Ecol. Gloss. 56 Chomophyte, plants growing in fissures or crevices in rock, and on ledges where rock debris has accumulated.

1939 A. G. Tansley Brit. Islands & their Vegetation viii. xxxix. 799 On the Scottish mountains the arctic-alpine chomophyte communities reach their greatest development in the corries of the mica-schists.

1951 Jrnl. Ecol. 39 65 In contrast to chasmophytes, chomophytes (which grow in layers of debris overlying lips and ledges of rock) are few and of local occurrence.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	chomophyte
释义	chomophyten. /ˈkəʊməʊfʌɪt/ Etymology: German (M. Oettli Beiträge z. Ökologie d. Felsflora 1905), < Greek χῶμα heaped-up earth + -o suffix + -phyte comb. form. Botany. (See quot. 1938.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > growing on or among stone or rock rock herb1626 rock plant1694 rupestral1847 ruderal1873 stone-plant1883 lithophyte1895 chasmophyte1900 vertical1902 chomophyte1909 1909 P. Groom & I. B. Balfour tr. M. Oettli in E. Warming Oecol. 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. 1938 J. R. Carpenter Ecol. Gloss. 56 Chomophyte, plants growing in fissures or crevices in rock, and on ledges where rock debris has accumulated. 1939 A. G. Tansley Brit. Islands & their Vegetation viii. xxxix. 799 On the Scottish mountains the arctic-alpine chomophyte communities reach their greatest development in the corries of the mica-schists. 1951 Jrnl. Ecol. 39 65 In contrast to chasmophytes, chomophytes (which grow in layers of debris overlying lips and ledges of rock) are few and of local occurrence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1909
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