10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYGROCHASTIC»
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1
Issues in Life Sciences: Botany and Plant Biology Research: ...
Recently, hygrochastic capsules were described in detail for the first time in
alpine Veronica in New Zealand.” “The aim of the present study was to
investigate whether hygrochastic capsules are an adaptation of alpine Veronica
to achieve ...
2
Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae F-Z
Hygrochastic capsule opening incompletely, dispersal by wash-out mechanism;
Aizoon canariense. b-g Ruschioideae. Hygrochastic capsules with expanding
keels and sheets on the valves, increasing enclosure of seeds and correlated ...
Heidrun E.K. Hartmann, 2002
3
Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons: Magnoliid, Hamamelid and ...
45) - Capsule loculicidal or septicidal. often hygrochastic: seeds never arillate I.
Aizooideae (p. 44) I. Snlihm7. Aizooideae Inflorescence leafy: perianth internally
petaloid, externally sepaloid: flower perigynous or very rarely hypogynous: ...
Klaus Kubitzki, Jens G. Rohwer, Volker Bittrich, 1993
4
The Karoo: Ecological Patterns and Processes
Hygrochastic plants possess fruits that open when moistened to allow the seeds
to escape and close again during dry conditions, so that dispersal is generally
restricted in time. In hygrochastic plants, dispersal can only occur when water is ...
W. Richard J. Dean, Suzanne Milton, 1999
... inflorescence leafy, perianth internally petaloid, externally sepaloid; flowers
perigynous, epigynous, or rarely hypogynous, with a holonectary; capsules
loculicidal or septicidal, often hygrochastic or a winged nut or horn-shaped, n = 8.
6
Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants
4.4.2 Release of Only a Portion of the Seeds at a Time Hygrochastic species all
have in common the presence of a canopy seed bank. The seed containers are
opened during the rain, releasing a few seeds at a time and close again after ...
Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, 1999
7
Seed Biology: Importance, Development, and Germination
... Water supply Hydrochory, 151, 162, 187, 192—195, 217 Hydrolase, 298
Hydrophyte, 83 Hygrochasy, 207 Hygrochastic mechanisms, 205 Hygrochastic
movement, 207 Hygroscopic movement, 202 Hypanthium, 167 Hypertrophy, 98,
107, ...
8
Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants
Fruits loculicidal or septicidal capsules, often hygrochastic. x = 8. — Gunniopsis,
Aizoan- themum, Aizoon, Plinthus, Galenia, Acrosanthes. 8b.
MESEMBRYANTHEMOIDEAE. Petals of stamino- dial origin present, mostly
fused with the stamens ...
Armen Leonovich Takhtadzhi͡an, 1997
9
Succulent Flora of Southern Africa
By unequal shrinkage of dead cells in the fruit wall the valves of the capsule open
out on wetting and close on drying (hygrochastic), or open on wetting and remain
open on drying (hygroscopic) or open on drying (dry-dehiscent). Ihlenfeldt ...
10
Palestine Journal of Botany: Jerusalem series
In this paper, as well as in a previous one (Z011/my and FAHN, I941) a series of
new hygrochastic plants were studied anatomically and physically. These cases,
in addition to those already lmown, may shed light on the whole gamut of ...
