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chasmophyte Bot.|ˈkæzməʊfaɪt|
[f. Gr. χάσµα chasm + -o + -phyte.]
A plant inhabiting the crevices of rocks.
1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, Chasmophyte, a plant which grows in rock-crevices. 1903W. R. Fisher tr. Schimper's Plant Geogr. ii. i. 178 Crevices in rocks..produce a somewhat more copious vegetation, that of the chasmophytes... Chasmophytes, as opposed to lithophytes, are long straggling plants. 1951Jrnl. Ecol. XXXIX. 66 These are all chasmophyte habitats except for the ledge, which is a chomophyte one. |