Megaphyll
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Megaphyll can refer to:
  • A leaf that is not necessarily physically large, with a particular type of vascular structure
    Microphyll
    The terminology of fossil plants is in places a little confusing. In the discipline's 200+ year history, certain concepts have become entrenched, even though improved understanding has threatened the foundations upon which they are based...

  • In ecology
    Ecology
    Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...

     - a leaf that has a blade with surface area >164025 mm2. (Compare macrophyll, mesophyll
    Mesophyll
    Mesophyll can refer to:* Mesophyll tissue, in plant anatomy, photosynthetic parenchyma cells that lie between the upper and lower epidermis layers of a leaf...

    , microphyll
    Microphyll (disambiguation)
    Microphyll can refer to:* A leaf that is not necessarily physically small, with a particular type of vascular structure* In ecology - a leaf that has a blade with surface area 225-2025 mm2....

    , nanophyll, notophyll)
  • In ecology - a plant, or vegetation, that has megaphyll leaves
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