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Hydrophytic plant adaptations
 

buttressed trunks | aerenchyma tissue | shallow roots | fluted trunks | adventitious roots
 inflated stems | floating leaves | knees | polymorphic leaves | stooling | hypertrophied lenticels
 
Pneumatophores or kneesPneumatophores or knees
Upward appendage or extension of the underground root system. Allows root system to obtain oxygen since they are exposed. Found on cypress and mangroves.