hi folks I'm wondering if anyone has a sense of how this term is used? in literature it seems to refer to woody flowering plants, for example Exploring Dendroflora Diversity and Ecology in an Urban Arboretum from Western Romania: The Role of Plant Life-Form and Plant Family in Urban Woody Phytocoenosis, where an example of Rosaceae is given.
however, I can't find anything giving a definition besides wiktionary which defines it as flora growing on trees, e.g. epiphytes. There are no epiphytic Rosaceae to my knowledge, so that doesn't make sense to me.
anyone have a sense of the typical usage of this term?
by bashanon
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I can’t seem to find another meaning than flora growing on trees, bur strangely all literature seems to point to Slavic, Balcan and Baltic area’s. And nothing to New world epiphitic flora ( which is huge), So maybe it’s a translation on a eastern european term.
Literally: Tree like plants. Or perhaps better: woody plants.
Dendra = tree, and Flora as in ‘flora and fauna’.
Your example has a list, they are all woody plants. No grasses, herbs, or epiphytes mentioned.
It makes sense in describing shrubs / trees/ woody flora with a tree like form as a single term