hydrophilous

Definitions

In botany, pollinated by the agency of water. Compare anemophilous, entomophilous.
In phytogeography:
Requiring much moisture: said of plants.
Less properly, presenting conditions favorable to such plants; hydrophytic.
Aquatic: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi. Also hydrophil.
In entomology, having the character of a beetle of the genus Hydrophilus or family Hydrophilidæ.

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Wetlands, with their hydrophilous reeds, and cultivated trees are important tree resources and provide various goods-and-services including timber, NTFPs, grazing and desertification control.

Northern Africa and forests and woodlands 2008
Grassland types include hydrophilous grassland on sandy riverine soils dominated by Acroceras macrum and Ischaemum arcuatum; high-lying grasslands on sand, a diverse fire-subclimax community, palm-veld with Hyphaene coriacea and Phoenix reclinata, another fire-subclimax community; Echinochloa floodplain grassland; and low-lying grasslands on clay.

Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa 2008
In the muddy vegetation associated to these mangroves, big hydrophilous herbs, mainly grasses and forbs, and musaceae (Heliconia latispatha) predominate.

Guianan mangroves 2008
The predominant vegetation in this region are hydrophilous trees and palms, with abundant epiphytes and scattered herbaceous layer.

Orinoco Delta swamp forests 2008
Dissemination is effected by the agency of water, of air, of animals -- and fruits and seeds are therefore grouped in respect of this as hydrophilous, anemophilous and zooidiophilous.

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