Meaning of haptera | Babel Free

Examples

“The kelp specimen uses its haptera to anchor itself to the rocks.”

“By means of these haptera not only different individuals become united together but instances are given by Sernander in which Cetraria islandica, normally a ground lichen had become epiphytic by attaching itself in this way to the trunk of a tree (Pinus sylvestris).”

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