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Give a classification of plants based on the amount of water requirement.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Biogeography

Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming (1895), founder of plant ecology, grouped plant communities chiefly by the water available in their habitat — the basis of the scheme below.

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  • 1. Hydrophytes — Water in Excess
  • 2. Mesophytes — Moderate Water
  • 3. Xerophytes — Water Scarce
  • 4. Halophytes — Water Saline
  • Where Current Research Revises the Scheme

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