Organisms And Population Question 271
Question: Plants of salty seashore wet-lands are called [MP PMT 1996]
Options:
A) Halophytes
B) Heliophytes
C) Hydrophytes
D) Saprophytes
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Answer:
Correct Answer: A
Solution:
Halophytes are plants of saline habitats which have not only the ability to tolerate high conc.
of salts in their rooting medium but are able to obtain their water supply from the same.
Halophytes grow in saline soils, mangroves, coastal dunes and tidal marshes.
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