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The vegetation of diciduous forest has a special characteristic: Their leaves fall in the Autumn.

Why does this happen?

               you have a very good explnation of that.

There are a lot of trees, plants, flowers in this ecosystem but, in this webpage I put the most knowing and the most numerous.

QUERCUS ROBUR

Common name:

Oak

Clade:

Angiosperms, Eudicots, Rosids

Order:

Fagales

Family:

Fagaceae

Fruit:

Acorn

Leaves:

Big, with lobes, spatulate or oblong and toothed. Dark green in bundle and clearer in back. Petiocles: short and without fair.

Height: 20-40m. Wide treetops and thick trunks with rough bark. Straight trunk.

Characteristics:

Ulmus

Common name:

Elm

Clade:

Angiosperms, Eudicots, Rosids

Order:

Rosales

Family:

Ulmaceae

Fruit:

Samara

Leaves:

Oval, point in the end. Smooth in the top part and with fair at low part. Asymmetric

Characteristics:

Height: Can reach to 30 or 40m. Wide treetops, ovoidea and lengthened. Robust straight trunk. Cracked crust.

Dryopteris filix-mas

Common name:

Male fern

Division:

Pteridophyta

Class:

Polypodiopsida/Pteridopsida

Polypodiales

Order:

Dryopteridaceae

Family:

Grow up in pairs of steam. 20-15 pinnas

Leaves:

Height: Can reach to 50m. Stem: erect form (base of plant). Don't have reproductor organs. Only produce gametes in haploid fase. No flowers and no fruits. It is not a deciduoud plant.

Charactristics:

Bryophyta sensu stricto

Common name:

Moss

Division:

Embryophyta

Class:

Takakiopsida/Sphagnopsida/Andreaeopsida/ Andreaeobryopsida/Oedipodiopsida/Polytrichopsida/ Tetraphidopsida/Bryopsida

Charactristics:

There are a lot of moss classes and species in all the forest. Sexual organs cover by sterile cells. From green algae. False steam.Tiny leaves.Alternation of generations. No conductive tissue. No flowers and no fruits. Resistant to drought periods. They grow up in soil, trees...

Also there are flowers and, obviouly, more species of trees (aspen, maple, chesnut tree...). 

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