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Alchornea latifolia - Calyptronoma occidentalis - Solanum acropterum - Piper discolor Forest | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Alchornea latifolia - Calyptronoma occidentalis - Solanum acropterum - Piper discolor Forest
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: Rainforest community on limestone-derived, light-brown clay loam, with a rather dense 8- to 11-m high canopy composed of <i>Alchornea latifolia, Solanum acropterum, Calyptronoma occidentalis, Clethra occidentalis, Piper discolor, Piper arboreum, Laplacea haematoxylon, Hedyosmum arborescens, Guarea swartzii, Cleyera thaeoides, Conostogia montana</i>, and others. This association shares a number of species with the lower <i>Psidium montanum</i> submontane rainforests on limestone soils, e.g. <i>Calyptronoma occidentalis, Picramnia antidesma, Cordia elliptica, Ardisia brittonii, Psychotria discolor</i>, and <i>Syngonium auritum</i>, but the species <i>Solanum acropterum</i> has not been recorded in other montane forest types. Climbers are frequent and epiphytes abundant. The rather poor herb layer may be dominated almost exclusively by <i>Diplazium costale</i>. DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica: the John Crow Mountains. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.36417.CEGL008309
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Nov-2014 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • This Community's Level: association
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: Alchornea latifolia - Calyptronoma occidentalis - Solanum acropterum - Piper discolor Forest
  Code: CEGL008309
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