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(rare) Any plant that grows by the wayside or where the natural vegetation has been disrupted..
Based on the locations of species in coordinate space (Fig. 3b), the first DCA ordination axis represented a gradient shifting from SG1 and SG2, which were mainly composed of climbing (Rhynchosia volubilis and Lonicera japonica) and woody plants (Frangula crenata and Rhododendron reticulatum), through SG3 and SG5, which were composed of aletophytes and hygrophytes (R. chinensis), to SG7, which was composed of hygrophytes of oligotrophic marshes (Platanthera tipuloides var. nipponica) comprising dense low growth of small sedges and other plants.
In the present treatment they have been divided according to biological characteristics into hylophytes or forest plants, poophytes or meadow plants, and aletophytes, ruderal or waste plants.
dry mesophytes over shallow soil in an otherwise mesic habitat, pyrophytes around an old campsite fireplace, aletophytes on trails through the community, etc.
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Aletophyte means (rare) Any plant that grows by the wayside or where the natural vegetation has been disrupted..
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Based on the locations of species in coordinate space (Fig. 3b), the first DCA ordination axis represented a gradient shifting from SG1 and SG2, which were mainly composed of climbing (Rhynchosia volubilis and Lonicera japonica) and woody plants (Frangula crenata and Rhododendron reticulatum), through SG3 and SG5, which were composed of aletophytes and hygrophytes (R. chinensis), to SG7, which was composed of hygrophytes of oligotrophic marshes (Platanthera tipuloides var. nipponica) comprising dense low growth of small sedges and other plants.
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