haptera
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]haptera
- plural of hapteron
- The kelp specimen uses its haptera to anchor itself to the rocks.
- 1921, Annie Lorrain Smith, Lichens, University press, page 94:
- 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).