epiphytical

From the damp rock the roots of the plant, matted and interwoven, may be peeled off in a thin layer, for the plant is epiphytical, depending as much upon heat, moisture and light as on any constituents of the soil for sustenance.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

There are more epiphytical Orchideae on the south sides of these hills, than the north.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

This rock is clothed with ferns epiphytical Orchideae, an Arundo, and a few stunted trees are very common at its summit.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Gordonia, here very abundant, covered with Lichens and epiphytical

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

From the damp rock the roots of the plant, matted and interwoven, may be peeled off in a thin layer, for the plant is epiphytical, depending as much upon heat, moisture and light as on any constituents of the soil for sustenance.

Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

These diseases are produced by the ravages of minute and very low forms of vegetable life, termed by the botanists _epiphytical fungi_.

The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875

Scarlet flowers of _Vaccinium serpens, _ an epiphytical species, were strewed about, and the great blossoms of

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

Tree-ferns are however absent, and neither plantains, epiphytical

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

_ Large bamboos rather crest the hills than court the deeper shade, and of the latter there is abundance, for the torrents cut a straight, deep, and steep course down the hill flanks: the galleys they traverse are choked with vegetation and bridged by fallen trees, whose trunks are richly clothed with _Dendrobium Pierardi_ and other epiphytical Orchids, with pendulous _Lycopodia_ and many ferns, _Hoya, Scitamineae, _ and similar types of the hottest and dampest climates.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

Wallichii_) grew on the trunks of all the great trees, attaining a higher elevation than most other epiphytical species, for I have seen it at 10,000 feet.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864