Login | Datasets | Logout
 

View Community Concepts - Detail

A.465 | EcoArt 2002
  click to update datacart
Name: A.465
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance consists of woodlands of tropical Florida, characterized by an open canopy of ~Metopium toxiferum$ and mixtures of other tropical species. The only association defined in this alliance has a short canopy (3-7 m) and is dominated by ~Metopium toxiferum, Thrinax morrisii$, and ~Byrsonima lucida$, with other tropical hammock species. Understory species present include ~Schizachyrium$ spp., ~Flaveria linearis, Croton linearis$, and ~Borrichia frutescens$. The open canopy structure is perhaps maintained in part by prescribed burning. In the southeastern United States, this alliance occurs on exposures of Miami Formation oolite in the Florida Keys. It may well occur in the Bahamas or in the West Indies. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.2117.A465
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: II.A.1.N.a
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: METOPIUM TOXIFERUM WOODLAND ALLIANCE
  Code: A.465
  Common: Poisonwood Woodland Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Metopium toxiferum Woodland Alliance