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Raunkiaer's Life Forms

a system of classification of plant forms based on the positioning of perennating buds (see PERENNATION relative to ground level. See PHANEROPHYTE, CHAMAEPHYTE, HELOPHYTE.

Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

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