Small leaves, light colors, close to ground, thorns, and halophytic are just some of the adaptations of plants.

a. highland
b. ubac
c. desert
d. riparian
e. tropical rainforest

Small leaves, light colors, close to ground, thorns, and halophytic are just some of the adaptations of desert plants.

Option: C

Explanation:

Each and every plants has some unique characteristics regarding its colour, texture, length, capacity of bearing sun rays, requirement of water etc. There are many kinds of plants like mesophytes, hydrophytes, halophytes and xerophytes.

Desert plants or Xerophytes are the plants which used to grow in the desert areas with very low water requirement and can even sustain through a long month without even a single drop of water. For e.g. cactus, acacia. These have small leaves, and these leaves some time turns into thorns, short height (stunted).

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