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Conocarpus erectus Saturated Shrubland Alliance | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Conocarpus erectus Saturated Shrubland Alliance Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... Description: This alliance consists of stunted, non-tidal mangrove areas dominated by Conocarpus erectus. Mangrove species may occur as well, especially Avicennia germinans and Laguncularia racemosa. Other characteristic species (many of them pan-tropical or pan-Caribbean halophytes) include Borrichia arborescens, Borrichia frutescens, Batis maritima, Sporobolus virginicus, Monanthochloe littoralis, Suaeda linearis, Salicornia virginica?, Sarcocornia perennis, Sesuvium portulacastrum, and Blutaparon vermiculare (= Philoxerus vermicularis). The stunting of the mangroves is apparently the result of growth on bare bedrock (with small soil pockets) and hypersaline conditions caused by deposition (without flushing) of salt by extreme tidal events. This alliance is near the conceptual boundary between tidal wetland, non-tidal wetland, and upland conditions.  Accession Code: VB.CC.21089.CONOCARPUSERECT 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: Conocarpus erectus Saturated Shrubland Alliance   Translated: Buttonwood Saturated Shrubland Alliance   UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.126258 NatureServe Explorer   Code: A.732