arborescent plant


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Noun1.arborescent plant - having the shape or characteristics of a treearborescent plant - having the shape or characteristics of a tree
Australian grass tree, grass tree - any of several Australian evergreen perennials having short thick woody stems crowned by a tuft of grasslike foliage and yielding acaroid resins
ligneous plant, woody plant - a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems
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Robinsoniella is a genus of sixteen arborescent plant species from Mexico and Central America, of which fourteen may be found in Mexico (Fryxell 1988, 1997 & Kearney 1951).
(2011, 2012) showed that most harvesting appears to be from sub-adult and adult cycads, and that bark strips are harvested from large arborescent plants (Fig.
Approximately 480 species belong to Cyatheaceae, with pantropical distribution (TRYON; TRYON, 1982), or rather, a group with predominantly arborescent plants growing up to 25 m high (SPORNE, 1970).