Abstract
The Ceylon Journal of Science is published by the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Full text available. The journal also has its own website. The Ceylon Journal of Science is a continuation of the Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences) which is no longer being published as a separate journal. The history of the journal can be found here.From May 2020, Ceylon Journal of Science is indexed in DOAJ.
Highlights
Phytotelma is a water body held by living or dead terrestrial plants (Motoyoshi, 2012)
Those phytotelmata belong to 8 types namely; tree holes, bamboo stumps, leaf axils, tree trunks, fruit husks, fruit shells, fallen leaves, and fallen spathes (Figure 1)
Among that 52% (n = 90) of the phytotelmata were water bodies held by living terrestrial plants and 48% (n = 84) of phytotelmata were water held by dead terrestrial plant structures
Summary
Phytotelma is a water body held by living or dead terrestrial plants (Motoyoshi, 2012). The plants may be ornamental plants, wild plants, or crop plants and those are found especially in humid places such as in tropical areas (Emantis, 2017a) These freshwater aquatic habitats are characterized by small size, discreteness, and ephemerality. Bamboo stumps and internodes, fallen leaves and spathes, fruit husks and shells, leaf axils, flower bracts, and pitchers are the structures of the terrestrial plants which create phytotelmata (Motoyoshi, 2012; Munirathnam, 2014). These aquatic habitats held by soft parts of plants are generally short-lived and constantly replaced by new ones and phytotelmata held by hard parts of plants are potentially more durable but water persistence is subject to rainfall (Motoyoshi, 2012)
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