Definition: plant obtaining organic carbon from a host green plant by tapping into an intermediary mycorrhizal fungus attached to the roots of the host plant
Definition: An area of a planet's surface which is primarily covered by a forest in which the majority of trees maintain their foliage despite seasonal change.
Definition: Of plant duration, a plant whose life span extends over more than two growing seasons, c.f. annual, biennial, ephemeral, of flowering with respect to architecture, hapaxanthic, monocarpic, pleonanthic
Definition: Non-woody plants growing attached to external support without contact to the ground. Non-woody hemiepiphytes either germinate on other plants and then establish roots in the ground, or germinate on the ground and later disconnect from the soil
