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helophyte Bot.|ˈhɛləfaɪt|
[mod. f. Gr. ἕλος marsh + ϕυτ-όν plant.]
A marsh plant.
[1902F. E. Clements Syst. Nomencl. Phytogeogr. 6 Helium, a marsh formation; helia, a group of marsh formations; helophyta, marsh plants; helophilus, marsh-loving.] 1909Groom & Balfour tr. Warming's Oecology of Plants xxxiv. 131 There is a group of plants, marsh plants (helophytes), which..develop their lower parts..in water or at least in soaking soil, but have their assimilatory organs mainly adapted to existence in the air. 1913Jrnl. Ecol. I. 17 Another division [of plants] is characterised by semi-aquatic dormant buds—helophytes and hydrophytes. The helophytes or marsh-plants do not include all so-called marsh species. 1926Tansley & Chipp Study of Vegetation ii. 22 The marsh plants (Helophytes) and water-plants (Hydrophytes), whose [perennating] buds are situated at the bottom of the water or in the subjacent soil. 1960N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. xv. 505 Marsh-plants (helophytes..) and water-plants (hydrophytes) are much alike in their morphological and anatomical characteristics. |