Raunkiaer's life-form classification
Raunkiaer's life-form classification A classification of plants, proposed by the Danish botanist C. Raunkiaer, based on the position of perennating buds in relation to the soil surface. See also CHAMAEOPHYTE; EPIPHYTE; GEOPHYTE; HEMICRYPTOPHYTE; PHANEROPHYTE; and THEROPHYTE.
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