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Physiognomy, narrowly defined, refers to the general external appearance of vegetation based on growth form (gross morphology) of the dominant plants. Structure relates to the spacing and height of plants forming the matrix of the vegetation cover (Fosberg 1961). Often physiognomy is used to...
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Forbs are herbaceous flowering plants that are not graminoids (grasses, sedges and rushes). The term is frequently used in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands. Forbs represent a guild of plant species with broadly similar growth...
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Graminoid is a term for a group of flowering plants that includes grasses (of the family Poaceae, also known as Gramineae) and grass-like plants such as sedges (of the family Cyperaceae) and rushes (family Juncaceae).
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A liana is any of various long-stemmed, usually woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in order to get access to well-lit areas of the forest....
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Non-vascular plants is a general term for those plants without a vascular system (xylem and phloem). Although non-vascular plants lack these particular tissues, a number of non-vascular plants possess tissues specialized for internal transport of...
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A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m (15-20 ft) tall. A large number of plants can be either shrubs or...
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A subshrub (Latin suffrutex) is a short woody plant. It is distinguished from a shrub by its ground-hugging stems and lower height, with overwintering perennial woody growth typically less than 10–20 cm tall, or by being only weakly woody and/or...
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A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is...
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The term vine may refer to a climbing or trailing plant. The word, derived from Latin vīnea, in the original sense referred to the grapevines (Vitis). The modern extended sense is mostly restricted to North American English, which uses "grapevine"...
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