Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant having hard leaves stiffened by woody tissue, with a relatively short distance between leaf nodes. Sclerophylls are generally found in warm dry climates or in phosphorus-poor soils and include many species of eucalyptus and evergreen oak.
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- noun biology A form of
vegetation that has hardleaves and shortinternodes
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Examples
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One climax association, dominated by trees, is called sclerophyll forest.
California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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The combination of wet winters with dry summers is unique among climate types and produces a distinctive natural vegetation of hardleaved evergreen trees and shrubs called sclerophyll forest.
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As you can see from the log and the leaf litter in the photo, this one was photographed in a dry sclerophyll forest.
Archive 2010-04-01 Jess 2010
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As you can see from the log and the leaf litter in the photo, this one was photographed in a dry sclerophyll forest.
Fanciful Fungi Jess 2010
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The most important evergreen trees of the sclerophyll forest are California live oak, canyon live oak, interior live oak, tanoak, California laurel, Pacific madrone, golden chinkapin, and Pacific bayberry.
California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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The area also has the largest sclerophyll forest in the world, ranging from grassland, dry mallee heathland scrub and sclerophyll woodland to wet sclerophyll forest, wetlands and swamps.
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Various forms of sclerophyll woodland and scrub are also typical.
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On the hills and lower mountains, there is sclerophyll forest consisting of low trees with small, leathery leaves that can withstand the lack of summer precipitation.
California Coastal Chaparral Forest and Shrub Province (Bailey) 2009
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The white-eared honeyeater Lichenstomus leucotis and New Holland honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae are found in the drier forests, the Lewin honeyeater Meliphaga lewinii frequents the rainforests and wet sclerophyll forest.
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The distribution of the original vegetation of the region was largely determined by rainfall and drainage, with open sclerophyll forests on better drained soils in the higher rainfall areas becoming open woodlands as rainfall declines.
Naracoorte woodlands 2008
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