caducifolious

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin caducus (that easily falls) +‎ folium (leaf).

Adjective[edit]

caducifolious (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Having deciduous leaves
    • 2016 February 18, “Eight New Species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) Endemic for the Brazilian Amazon, with Notes on Their Conservational Status”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      With a 8,514,877 km² territory size and six biomes (Amazon Forest (humid broad leaf forest), Caatinga (small woody and herbaceous deciduous, caducifolious, spiny species), Cerrado (open tree and shrub woodland [19 ]), Atlantic Forest (costal forest), Pantanal (tropical swampland) and Pampa (grasslands)) Brazil has records of just 17 species of these arachnids in all biomes, except in the Pampa where amblypygids are not found.