Wiktionary
geophilous
a. 1 Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails. 2 (context botany English) Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground. 3 (context phytogeography English) growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi. 4 Fruiting underground.