It grows in areas of coastal sand, and on rocks as a lithophyte where there is sufficient accumulated material to form an open rooting medium.
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The animals that eat the figs disperse the seeds, which then germinate and grow on other plants ( epiphytes ) or on rocks ( lithophytes ).
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The flora has certain modifications, there are lithophytes ( plants that grow in rocky soils ) and species associated to andisols acidic soils of volcanic origin.
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As nutrients tend to be rarely available to lithophytes or chasmophytes, many species of carnivorous plants can be viewed as being pre-adapted to life on rocks.
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The orchid is a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte on mossy limestone rocks, in semi-deciduous and evergreen forests at elevations of.
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They include lithophytes, which cling to rocks; saprophytes, which grow in decaying vegetation on the forest floor; and terrestrials, which anchor in soil or sand.
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Its native distribution ranges from the Eastern Himalaya region to Yunnan . " U . brachiata " grows as a lithophyte among bryophytes on rocks at altitudes from to.
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It generally occurs as an epiphyte or lithophyte-in the former situation it frequently grows in close association with other endemic orchid species such as " Winika cunninghamii ".
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Unlike the many epiphytes and lithophytes which make up the rest of the family, with a few exceptions, all of the members of this subfamily are either Puya ".
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It is an epiphyte or lithophyte growing to 1.5 m tall, with leathery, green leaves that are 4 8 cm long, ovate to lanceolate, opposite or whorled.
