phyto-, phyt-, -phyte

(Greek: a plant; growth [growing in a specified way or place; to produce])

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.

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.

Rhodophyta

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(Greek: a plant; growth [growing in a specified way or place; to produce])

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