Rheophilous and Rheophyte

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If you have the book, look it up:

Van Steenis, Rheophytes of the world: xii

Although the term 'stenophyllous plants' is the oldest for the group, and I 
respect priority of names also in concepts, the term appeared 
inappropriate,. because of the confusion it may cause as many stenophyllous 
plants do not occur in streambeds ... **** Therefore I have chosen the word 
'rheophyte' ****, which is also similar to the terms in zoology, as Naumann 
(1931) indicated: rheophile, rheophob, rheomorphosis for "von strömendern 
Wasser abhängige Formbildung". Plants confined to caascades and waterfalals 
could then be "torrenticolous"rheophytic specializations.

Naumann, E. 1931. Limnologische terminologie. In Abderhalden (Ed.), Handb. 
Biol. Arbeitsmethoden Abt. 10: 512.

At 10:01 PM 3/22/01 +1100, you wrote:
> > Try Van Steenis, Rheophytes of the World. Sijthoff & Noordhoff. 1981.
>
>I remember this book well and the profound impression it had on me in PNG...
>
>Did van Steenis actually invent the word?
>
>jim

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