chasmophyten.
/ˈkazməʊfʌɪt/ Botany.
A plant inhabiting the crevices of rocks.
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chasmophyte1900
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chomophyte1909
1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms Chasmophyte, a plant which grows in rock-crevices.
1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper 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.
1951 Jrnl. Ecol. 39 66 These are all chasmophyte habitats except for the ledge, which is a chomophyte one.
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