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Ecological parameter:  life form - Raunkiaer

Parameter group: life related parameters

Explanation:
The parameter characterises the life form of species with respect to the position of the overwintering organs.

Abbreviations:

Category name	Abbreviation	Explanation
phanerophyte	phanerophyte	plants that grow taller than 25 - 50 cm or whose shoots do not die back periodically to that height limit
chamaephyte	chamaephyte	plants whose mature branch or shoot system remains perennially within 25 - 50 cm above ground surface or plants that grow taller than 25 - 50 cm, but whose shoots die back periodically to that height limit
hemikryptophyte	hemikryptophyte	periodic shoot reduction to a remnant shoot system that lies relatively flat on the ground surface
geophyte	geophyte	periodic reduction of the complete shoot system to storage organs that are imbedded in the soil
therophyte	therophyte	annuals; plants whose shoot and root system dies after seed production and which complete their whole life cycle within one year
errant vascular hydrophyte	errant vascular hydrophyte	pleustophytic vascular hydrophytes, free-moving in the water, not attached or rooted in the ground
thallophyte	thallophyte	non-vascular cryptogams
errant thallo-hydrophyte	errant thallo-hydrophyte	pleustophytic non-vascular cryptogams, free-moving in the water, not attached or rooted in the ground

Assigned taxa for each higher systematic unit

Taxagroup	Number of assigned taxa / total number of taxa - percentage