Seasonal semideciduous forest

It is composed of phanerophytes with leaf buds that are protected from drought by scales (cataphylls or hairs), having deciduous sclerophyllous or membranaceous adult leaves.

The degree of deciduousness, i.e. leaf loss, is dependent on the intensity and duration of basically two reasons: minimum and maximum temperatures and water balance deficiency.

[2] The vegetation is located in the north and west of Paraná, region of the third plateau, where it presents different types of soil.

[2] According to Rodrigues (1999), the seasonal semideciduous forest (IBGE, 1993) corresponds approximately to the following designations:[3][4] There is an IBGE (2012) altimetric division to delimit study regions, which is:[2] Some authors also indicate a fifth type, the coastal seasonal semideciduous forest (or Mata dos Tabuleiros), present along the east coast of Brazil, mainly between the states of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro.

In the interior of São Paulo, the only fragment that has an area larger than this is the Morro do Diabo State Park.