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| Adventive | Referring to a plant or animal that has become established in a region to which it is not native but does not cause noticible economic or ecological harm. |  |
| Aguajal | A Spanish name referring to a palm swamp dominated by |
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| Alien | An animal, plant, or microbe that is introduced or naturally dispersed from one area into to another area. There are two types of alien plants, adentives that cause no apparent economic and ecological harm (e.g., the common mullein) and invasives that cause economic or ecological harm (e.g., the Japanese knotweed). |  |
| Ant garden | A ball of roots that forms in certain species of epiphytic plants and is inhabited by ants. | |
| Aquatic | Growing in or on the water. |  |
| Autochorous | A type of seed dispersal in which the diaspore is ejected by the action of the parent plant. |  |
| Autotroph (autotrophic) | Capable of synthesizing complex organic substances from simple inorganic substrates, i.e., it photosynthesizes. |  |
| Biota | The totality of organisms found in a given environment. |  |
| Bladder | A thin-walled, inflated, small sac found in species of |
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| Burital | A Portuguese name referring to palm swamps dominated by |
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| Caatinga | A Portuguese term referring to a dry, thorn-scrub, deciduous vegetation of northeastern Brazil. Do not confuse eastern Brazilian caatinga with Amazonian caatinga. |  |
| Calcareous | Referring to a calcium rich soil. | |
| CAM | See Crassulacean acid metabolism. | |
| Campina | A Portuguese term referring to a vegetation type similar to savanna found on white sand soils in the Brazilian Amazon. |  |
| Campinarana | A Brazilian name for a low forest growing on white sand which is the first step in plant succession starting with open, white sand areas caused by disturbance, then to campina, followed by campinarana, and finally to terra firme forest. |  |
| Campo rupestre | A Portuguese term referring to a rocky kind of savanna, usually at midelevations in Brazil. Species of several plant families; e.g., Asteraceae, Eriocaulaceae, Melastomataceae, Velloziaceae, Xyridaceae, etc., are characteristic of this vegetation. |  |
| Campos de altitude | A Portuguese term referring to savanna or prairie like vegetation at high altitudes in Brazil. | |
| Canopy tree layer | A hypothetical layer in tropical rain forest consisting of trees that form a ± continuous layer commonly at a maximum height of about 25–35 meters in the Neotropics. |  |
| Carnivory (adj. = carnivorous) | A plant which captures animals such as rotifers, mosquito larvae, adult insects, etc. which are decomposed on or within the leaves of the plant and the nutrients released (e.g., nitrogen) are assimilated by the plant. This term also applies to animals eating other animals. | |
| Cerrado | A Portuguese term referring to a type of vegetation with scatttered shrubs and relatively small, often contorted trees with thick bark and grasses and sedges dominating the understory. |  |