hydatophyte

plural hydatophytes

1. An obligate waterplant; a plant which lives partly or completely submerged in water, such as water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes).

   […] hydatophytes and hydrophytes don't differ conceptually in the ability to concentrate radionuclides.

   2016, Dharmendra K. Gupta, Clemens Walther, Impact of Cesium on Plants and the Environment, page 193

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   […] hydatophytes are not attached to the ground by their roots (duckweed and Canadian pondweed), and others (the waterlily) are attached. Hydatophytes are classified according to their course of development. True hydatophytes […]

   1973, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov, Great Soviet Encyclopedia, volume 6, page 637

   […] hydatophytes) are those plants which live either completely (the so-called submersion hydatophytes), or partly i.e. with their vegetative organs, (the so-called emmersion^([sic]) hydatophytes) submerged in water. Amphibious […]

   1992, J. Sebanek, Plant Physiology, volume 21, page 43

   […] the amount of hydatophyte biomass which leaves the Pantanal merit further study. The camalotes carry with them also a significant terrestrial macrofauna. Caimans travel downstream and reach Argentina and there are also unconfirmed[…]

   2012 December 6, F.D. Por, The Pantanal of Mato Grosso (Brazil): World’s Largest Wetlands, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 50