different between phyllophyte vs cormophyte

English

Etymology

From German Phyllophyt. Surface reading: phyllo- (“leaf”) +? -phyte (“plant”).

Noun

phyllophyte (plural phyllophytes)

1. (botany, rare) A plant characterized as structurally based upon or possessing true leaves.

   Synonym: cormophyte

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kormós, “trunk stripped of its boughs”) +? -phyte; see also corm (“swollen underground stem”), Latin cormus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??m??fa?t/

Noun

cormophyte (plural cormophytes)

1. (now informal, botany) Any plant having a proper stem or axis of growth, which is distinct from its leaves, phyllophyte
   • 1940, Edgar Nelson Transeau, Homer Cleveland Sampson, Lewis Hanford Tiffany, Textbook of botany, Part 1, page 156,

     Very careful developmental or anatomical investigation may be required to show that the variously-constructed organs of many cormophytes are derived by the metamorphosis of the three primary organs, root, stem, and leaf, and to ascertain with which of these any particular structure is really homologous.

   • 2008, Giulia Caneva, Maria Pia Nugari, M. P. Nugari, O. Salvadori (editors), Plant Biology for Cultural Heritage: Biodeterioration and Conservation, page 91,

     The morphology of cormophytes exhibits considerable variations in size, appearance of the various parts, and duration of the life cycle.

Coordinate terms

• thallophyte

Derived terms

• cormophytic

Anagrams

• chromotype, ectomorphy