phyto-, phyt-, -phyte
(Greek: a plant; growth; growing in a specified way or place; to produce)
psamathophyte
A strandline plant or a sandy seashore.
psammophyte
A plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
psammophytes
Plants that grow best in or tolerate sand, particularly fine to medium sand.
psammophytic
psilophyte
1. Any plant of the savanna (psilos, "without trees").
2. Any of a division (Psilophyta) of simple vascular plants with upright branches that appeared in the early Paleozoic period and were the first of the land plants.
2. Any of a division (Psilophyta) of simple vascular plants with upright branches that appeared in the early Paleozoic period and were the first of the land plants.
psilophytic
A reference to psilophytes; psilophytic flora.
psychrophyte
A plant living in relatively cold polar or alpine habitats or on a cold substratum.
pteridophyta
pteridophyte
pteridophytes
pteridophytic
pyrophyte
A plant that is resistant to, or tolerates, fire or which needs fire to reproduce.
Pyrrophyta
rheophyte
rheophyte, rheophytic
A plant inhabiting running water; a plant that is confined to flowing water.
