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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
 
Aerenchyma tissue
Unusually large cells in plant roots are arranged so that air spaces are present in the root. During anoxic conditions, oxygen can be transported to the air spaces in the roots from plant parts above the water surface.