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Name: Strumpfia maritima Shrubland Alliance
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This alliance consists of coastal limestone barrens of the West Indies, including, at least, Florida, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas. Strumpfia maritima is usually dominant to codominant. Other characteristic shrubs are Rhachicallis americana and Suriana maritima. These communities are near the conceptual border between upland, saturated, and tidal. Matted dwarf-shrubland, 1-5 dm tall, on flat to sloping limestone pavement on the coast of southwestern Puerto Rico, dominated by old, salt-pruned Conocarpus erectus. Other species present include Suriana maritima, Strumpfia maritima, Coccoloba uvifera, and Chamaesyce mesembrianthemifolia. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.18713.STRUMPFIAMARITI
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: Strumpfia maritima Shrubland Alliance
  Translated: Pride-of-Big-Pine Shrubland Alliance
  UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.125808 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: A.726