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Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that is adapted to long periods of dryness and heat. The plants feature hard leaves, short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem) and leaf orientation which is parallel or oblique to direct sunlight.
The predominant trees are evergreen sclerophyll broadleaf species and conifers. [2] Forests of holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia) and cork oak (Quercus suber) were once predominant in plains and valleys with deep alluvial soil. Over centuries most of these forests have been converted to agriculture, pasture, or maquis shrubland. Maquis shrubland ...
The ecoregion's plant communities include: Evergreen oak forests, with cork oak (Quercus suber) and holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia) as the predominant canopy trees, and an evergreen understory of low trees and high shrubs that include Laurus nobilis, Arbutus unedo, Erica arborea, Erica scoparia, Ilex aquifolium, Phillyrea latifolia, Phillyrea angustifolia, Viburnum tinus, Cytisus villosus, and ...
The Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests has six major plant communities. [2]The Tyrrhenian mixed oak forests are dominated by the sclerophyllous evergreen oak Quercus ilex, Quercus suber and Quercus coccifera, and by deciduous species such as Quercus pubescens, Quercus cerris, Fraxinus ornus, Celtis australis, and Ostrya carpinifolia.
Matorral is a shrubland plant community, composed of sclerophyll ("hard-leaved") shrubs and small trees, cactus, and bromeliads. Typical species include litre ( Lithraea caustica ), quillay or soapbark tree ( Quillaja saponaria ) , cactus ( Echinopsis chiloensis ), and bromeliads of genus Puya , with a diverse understory of herbs, vines, and ...
The Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests is an ecoregion in the lands around the Aegean Sea.The ecoregion covers most of mainland Greece, the Greek Aegean Islands (except for Crete), the western coast of Turkey, the southern Vardar river valley in North Macedonia, the southern Struma river valley at the extreme south-western corner of Bulgaria, [2] as well as Greece's ...
Sclerophyll; South Apennine mixed montane forests; Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands; Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests; Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests; Subshrub; Swan Coastal Plain Shrublands and Woodlands
Tall shrubs are mostly 2–8 m high, small shrubs 1–2 m high and subshrubs less than 1 m high. [ 3 ] There is a descriptive system widely adopted in Australia to describe different types of vegetation is based on structural characteristics based on plant life-form , as well as the height and foliage cover of the tallest stratum or dominant ...