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• Monocotyledons are either hydrophytes or strongly hygrophilous plants and have often peculiar features in germination.
• A third forest association develops on hygrophilous soils adjacent to creeks that experience shallow flooding during the rainy season.
• The principal vegetation is hygrophilous coastal evergreen rainforest, with mixed moist semi-evergreen rainforest further inland in the drier regions.
• Relict hygrophilous temperate deciduous oak forests (Quercus robur) appear locally in certain coastal wetlands of the Italian Peninsula (i.e. Circeo National Park) and...