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Guapira fragrans - Bursera simaruba - Tabebuia heterophylla - Ceiba pentandra / Pimenta racemosa - Cordia alliodora Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Guapira fragrans - Bursera simaruba - Tabebuia heterophylla - Ceiba pentandra / Pimenta racemosa - Cordia alliodora Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: Semi-deciduous forest originally occurring fairly extensively in a broad band around the southern coast of Martinique, inland from ~<i>Tabebuia heterophylla - Calophyllum antillanum - Coccoloba swartzii - Bursera simaruba - Hippomane mancinella - Coccoloba uvifera</i> Forest (CEGL007611)$$. The average annual temperature is 26-27°C, the average annual rainfall 900-1300 mm, with occasional drought years with as little as 300-500 mm, and with a dry season in most years of 2-6 months with less than 50 mm of precipitation. Canopy height ranges from 20-25 m, with typical species including <i>Guapira fragrans (= Pisonia fragrans), Bursera simaruba, Tabebuia heterophylla (= Tabebuia pallida), Ceiba pentandra</i>. Shorter trees include <i>Pimenta racemosa, Cordia alliodora, Myrcia citrifolia</i>, and <i>Myrcia splendens</i>. A well-developed shrub layer includes species such as <i>Pithecellobium unguis-cati, Parkinsonia aculeata, Randia aculeata, Coccoloba swartzii, Rauvolfia viridis, Daphnopsis americana ssp. caribaea (= Daphnopsis caribaea), Psychotria nervosa, Zanthoxylum punctatum, Capparis flexuosa, Croton</i> spp., <i>Acacia</i> spp., <i>Pilosocereus royenii</i>. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36137.CEGL007612
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Perspective from: 17-Nov-2014 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • This Community's Level: association
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Translated: Black Mampoo - Gumbo Limbo - White-cedar - Kapoktree / Bayrumtree - Spanish-elm Forest
  Scientific: Guapira fragrans - Bursera simaruba - Tabebuia heterophylla - Ceiba pentandra / Pimenta racemosa - Cordia alliodora Forest
  Code: CEGL007612
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.688519 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo