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Habit Growth Form List
Tree
A tree is a woody plant, usually with less then 3 stems and more than
5m tall.
Shrub
A shrub is a woody plant, usually with more than 1 stem and less than
8m tall. A shrub usually has its principal branching point at or near
soil level.
Mallee
A member of the genus Eucalyptus with many branches arising from
a massive underground stem or lignotuber.
Sub-shrub
Shrub-like but the stems are herbaceous in their upper parts and die
back during adverse conditions.
Herb
Fern
Parasite
A terrestrial parasite is a tree, shrub or herb.
Vine or Liana
A climer rooted in the ground.
Grass, Sedge, Rush or Graminoid
These may be qualified by "tussock" or "tufted".
Arborescents
Shrub, grass or herb e.g. bamboo.
Rosette tree
Unbranched stem with crown of leaves, e.g. palms, cycads, Xanthorrhoea,
tree ferns.
Rosette shrub
Stem-succulent shrub
Rare e.g. Sarcostemma, Opuntia and some Euphorbia.
Hummock grass
Mat and Cushion Plants
Habit Qualifier List
Clonal, thicket forming.
Straight, crooked, slender, robust, whipstick, virgate.
Open, dense, diffuse.
Many-,/ few-,/ long,/ short- stemmed.
Divaricate,/ flexuose,/ drooping,/ erect,/ spreading,/ whorled,/ intricate,/
arching stems, branches or branchlets.
Much-,/ few- branched.
Erect, leaning, decumbent, procumbent, prostrate, ascending, pendulous.
Weak, trailing, straggling.
Pyramidal,/ cylindrical,/ rounded,/ umbrella-shaped,/ spreading,/ weeping
crown.
Tufted, tussock.
Creeping,/ shortly creeping,/ extensively creeping,/ rhizome, rhizomatous,
rooting at nodes.
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27 August, 2004
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