Leaf size of plants can be described using the terms megaphyll, macrophyll, mesophyll, microphyll, nanophyll and leptophyll (in descending order) in a classification devised in 1934 by Christen C. Raunkiær and since modified by others.[1] Definitions vary, some referring to length and others to area. Raunkiaer's original definitions were by leaf area, and differed by a factor of nine at each stage.[2] Some authors simplified the system to make it specific to particular climates,[3] and have introduced extra terms including notophyll,[3]picophyll,[4]platyphyll[4] and subleptophyll.[5]
In ecology, microphyll and similar terms based on blade size of the leaf are used to describe a flora, for example, a "microphyll rainforest" is often defined as a forest where the dominant trees have leaves less than 7.5 cm in length.[6][7]
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^Microphyll rainforests and thickets of the wet tropics bioregion(PDF), Wet Tropics Management Authority (Australia), retrieved 18 January 2016
^Tracey, J. G. (John Geoffrey) (1982), The Vegetation of the Humid Tropical Region of North Queensland, pp. 32, 34, 26
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