sax·ic·o·lous

(săk-sĭk′ə-ləs) also sax·ic·o·line (-līn′)

adj.

Growing on or living among rocks: saxicolous lichens.

[Latin saxum, stone; see sek- in Indo-European roots + -colous.]

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saxicolous

(sækˈsɪkələs)

adj

(Biology) living on or among rocks: saxicolous plants. Also: saxicole or saxatile

[C19: from New Latin saxicolus, from Latin saxum rock + colere to dwell]

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Adj.

saxicolous - growing on or living among rocks

saxatile, saxicoline

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saxicole

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References in periodicals archive

Threatened lichens in the central Spain (saxicolous species excluded).

Valoracion de la diversidad de liquenes epifitos en bosques de quercineas mediante un nuevo indice liquenico (IDLE). Aplicacion a la Red Natura 2000

Type: Brazil, Minas Gerais, Itabirinha de Mantena, Serra do Pitengo, Pedra da Baleia, saxicolous, ca.

Notes on Alcantarea: a new medium-sized species and additions to A. roberto-kautskyi

The Lecanora polytropa group is a poorly understood group of very polymorphic saxicolous taxa (very rarely found on lignum).

Lecanora ramulicola (H. Magn.) Printzen & P.F. May novedad para la Peninsula Iberica

"Diversity and ecology of saxicolous vegetation mats on the inselbergs in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest." Divers.

Three New Alcantarea species from Espirito Santos and Minas Gerais, Brazil

New records of threatened or rare saxicolous bryophytes in the mountains of Portugal.

Bibliografia Botanica Iberica, 2006 Bryophyta

When this species lives in full sun and has a rupicolous habit, it becomes extremely reduced with an average 2 cm length leave (Figure 4), although when it grows in areas with less luminosity and with saxicolous habit it can grow ten times larger.

Bromeliaceae from Parque Estadual do Itacolomi, Minas Gerais, Brazil

The plant is epiphytic in moist forests but also saxicolous on dry cliffs and is very widespread, ranging from Mexico to Peru.

Bromeliad icons in Old Publications, part 2

Saxicolous lichen diversity on quartzite stony grounds in Cabaneros National Park.

Aportacion al conocimiento de los liquenes rupicolas que colonizan las pedrizas del Parque Nacional de Cabaneros

The members of this genus are rupicolous, saxicolous, or terrestrial, frequently found in open places that have much light and dry soil, on top of the rocky outcrops of the grasslands of rocky soils in the Espinhaco Range, in the scarps of the Atlantic Rainforest or in the domains of the Caatinga (Smith and Downs 1979)

Orthophytum humile: an endangered species of Brazilian Flora

Lecania fructigena Zahlbr., a coastal saxicolous lichen, new for Europe, with notes on related species.

Bibliografia Botanica Iberica, 2005 Liquenes

Plant terrestrial or saxicolous, rosulate herbs, forming large colonies, flowering 0.80-1.6 m tall, the rosettes actinomorphic to slightly zygomorphic in mature plants, 40-80 cm diameter.

Hechtia matudae, a spectacular, though neglected bromeliad from Mexico

Threatened lichens in central Spain (saxicolous species excluded).

Contribucion a la flora liquenica epifitica del Hayedo de Montejo de la Sierra (Madrid)