ecotype

Etymology

From eco- + type, coined by Swedish botanist Göte Turesson in 1922 and modeled on the earlier ecospecies.

noun

1. (ecology) A phenotype that is adapted to a specific environment.
   These four Japanese introductions probably were of the Japonica ecotype. 1995, C. Wayne Smith, Crop Production: Evolution, History, and Technology, page 234
   She collected rhizomes of two ecotypes, a northern ecotype originally from Yellowstone County, Montana, and a southern ecotype from an agricultural field near Hollister, California. 1997, Steven R. Radosevich, Jodie S. Holt, Claudio Ghersa, Weed Ecology: Implications for Management, page 78
   The more interesting question is, What is the difference between an endemic and an ecotype? 1997, Mark R. Macnair, “The evolution of plants in metal-contaminated environments”, in Rudolf Bijlsma, Volker Loeschcke, editors, Environmental Stress, Adaptation, and Evolution, page 19