sclerophyll
Sign in to saveAlso known as sclerophyll forest
thumb|right|260px|Chaparral vegetation in [[Southern California]] thumb|260px|The hard leaves of a Banksia integrifolia (notice the short internodes)
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Within Vinony's link graph, sclerophyll is referenced by 820 other articles, and connects out to forest, Victoria and Olea europaea.
Vinony files it under California chaparral and woodlands, Ecology and Flora of the Chilean Matorral.
Its subject is documented across 21 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Etymology
- Description
- Ecology
- Climate
- Soils
- Distribution
- Land use
- Australian bush
- Evolution
- Regions
- See also
- References
thumb|right|260px|Chaparral vegetation in [[Southern California]] thumb|260px|The hard leaves of a Banksia integrifolia (notice the short internodes)
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sclerophyll” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.