Definition of Saprophyte. Meaning of Saprophyte. Synonyms of Saprophyte

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Definition of Saprophyte

Saprophyte
Saprophyte Sap"ro*phyte, n. [Gr. sapro`s rotten + fyto`n a plant.] (Bot.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.

Meaning of Saprophyte from wikipedia

- sometimes called saprobes. Saprotrophic plants or bacterial flora are called saprophytes (sapro- 'rotten material' + -phyte 'plant'), although it is now believed[citation...
- Look up saprophyte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saprophyte may refer to: Saprotrophs; organisms, particularly fungi, which obtain nutrients directly...
- The honey fungus, Armillaria mellea, is a parasite of trees, and a saprophyte feeding on the trees it has killed....
- made up of tubelike pores rather than gills. Laetiporus sulphureus is a saprophyte and occasionally a weak parasite, causing brown cubical rot in the heartwood...
- known as myco-heterotrophs, but were formerly (incorrectly) described as saprophytes as it was believed they gained their nutrition by breaking down organic...
- for a long period of time. F. oxysporum is a common soil pathogen and saprophyte that feeds on dead and decaying organic matter. It survives in the soil...
- puffball, is a type of Puffball mushroom in the genus Lycoperdon. It is a saprophyte, and grows mainly in coniferous forests. It is found in China, Europe...
- only a few small outdoor sites where log cultivation is practiced. As a saprophyte that occurs on dead wood, H. erinaceus requires adequate substrate factors...
- vittadinii, commonly known as the Vittadini's lepidella, is a European saprophyte mushroom classified in the genus Saproamanita. Unlike some Amanitas, this...
- microfossils for a short span during and after the iridium boundary. These saprophytes would not need sunlight, allowing them to survive during a period when...