1895 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 194 Plants which, on the one hand are uninjured (ombrophilous) and on the other hand are injured (ombrophobous) by excessive rainfall.

1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. i. i. 2 Ombrophilous foliage is capable of being wetted, ombrophobous foliage is unwettable.

1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. i. i. 2 Xerophytes perish after two or three days of continuous rain; they are rain-avoiding, ombrophobous, whereas hygrophytes are, as a rule, ombrophilous.

1994 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 21 497/2 The flora of western Rwanda consists mainly of hygrophilous (ombrophilous) elements of Guineo-Congolian and Afromontane affinities.

1973 New Phytologist 72 926 A steep-sided basin in Poland where recent disforestation on only one side of an ombrophilous bog had caused the death of pines on that side of the bog only.

1985 Jrnl. Ecol. 73 21 Such a two-fold division of ombrophilous mire peat based on humification has long been recognized.

1996 Jrnl. Ecol. 84 773/2 Peat bogs with ombrophilous substrates.

1924 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 51 207 Apparently this lichen is an ombrophilous form, for it is found exclusively on the shady side of the tree in the northeast to northwest zones.

1998 Botanica Acta 111 222 The results indicate that the accumulation of indole alkaloids in the roots..is influenced in an opposite manner by the nutrient and water supply to the heliophilous and the ombrophilous species.