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A.1830 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.1830
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance includes vegetation dominated by algal mats in large, seasonally flooded depressions and flats in south Florida and the West Indies. Vegetation of this alliance consists of mixtures of cyanobacteria and green algae. The only known association in this alliance is broadly defined, and consists of a dense fibrous algal periphyton developed over thin layers of oozy marl overlying oolitic limestone. The cyanobacteria in the algal mats precipitate CaCO3, creating the calcitic marl. A very sparse growth of vascular plants sometimes occurs, including ~Eleocharis$ spp., ~Utricularia$ spp., or widely scattered and extremely stunted ~Rhizophora mangle$. ~Chara$ spp. are sometimes abundant, and are typically imbedded in the algal periphyton. Occurrences of this alliance can be large (hundreds to thousands of acres). 
Accession Code: VB.CC.1533.A1830
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 17-Mar-2005
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: VI.C.1.N.a
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: ALGAL PERIPHYTON SEASONALLY FLOODED NONVASCULAR ALLIANCE
  Code: A.1830
  Common: Algal Periphyton Seasonally Flooded Nonvascular Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Algal periphyton Seasonally Flooded Nonvascular Alliance