Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests

Flora

• The Tyrrhenian mixed oak forests are dominated by the sclerophyllous evergreen oak Quercus ilex and Quercus suber, and by deciduous species such as Quercus pubescens, Fraxinus ornus, and Ostrya carpinifolia.
• Some surviving temperate deciduous oak woodlands, mainly of Quercus robur, appear in coastal wetlands on the Italian peninsula and on the island of Corsica. Stone pine Pinus pinea is found on some coastal sand dunes.
• The southeastern Italian woodlands, in the region of Apulia, contain the oak species Quercus trojana and Quercus macrolepis, endemic to the Eastern Mediterranean, together with the evergreen holm oak and the deciduous oak. The Aleppo pine Pinus halepensis is also found in these woodlands.
• The islands of Dalmatia are dominated by Aleppo pine and holm oak. A relict and endemic subspecies of pine, Pinus nigra dalmatica, also occurs.

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