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Quercus geminata - Quercus myrtifolia - Serenoa repens - Sideroxylon tenax - Ximenia americana Shrubland | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Quercus geminata - Quercus myrtifolia - Serenoa repens - Sideroxylon tenax - Ximenia americana Shrubland Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... Description: Coastal scrub community of southeastern Florida, in southern Brevard, Martin, and Palm Beach counties. Ximenia americana and Cassytha filiformis reflect a more southern floristic association in this coastal oak scrub community. This community forms a narrow strip along the coast on acid sands, often immediately adjacent to southeastern coastal strand community on alkaline sands of more recent deposits in which the shell component has not yet been leached out. The community lacks Pinus clausa found in inland scrubs along this coast, such as at Jonathon Dickinson State Park in Martin County. Other characteristic species include Quercus chapmanii, Persea humilis, and Cassytha filiformis. Sideroxylon tenax in these scrubs fits the description of Sideroxylon lacuum given by Small (1933) and Lakela (1963) from specimens in scrubs on acid sands in Highlands County, Florida. Scrub-type plants on acid sands differ from strand-type plants on alkaline soils in being short, spiny, rhizomatous shrubs (versus tall shrubs/small trees in the coastal strand), having stiff leaves less than 4 cm long (versus drooping leaves up to 7 cm long) and in having a dull rusty tomentum on the underside of the leaves (versus a lustrous, pale golden tomentum) (Lakela 1963). Sideroxylon lacuum has not been recognized as distinct from Sideroxylon tenax in recent floras (Wunderlin 1998). This 'scrub-type' of Sideroxylon tenax also differentiates southern coastal scrubs from those to the north.  Accession Code: VB.CC.21622.QUERCUSGEMINATA Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 01-Feb-1995 to: 17-Nov-2014
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Quercus geminata - Quercus myrtifolia - Quercus chapmanii Shrubland Alliance This Community's Level: Association This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Translated: Sand Live Oak - Myrtle Oak - Saw Palmetto - Tough Bumelia - Tallow-wood Shrubland   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685102 NatureServe Explorer   Code: CEGL003822   Scientific: Quercus geminata - Quercus myrtifolia - Serenoa repens - Sideroxylon tenax - Ximenia americana Shrubland   Common: Southeast Florida Coastal Scrub (convergence) and Synonyms: (undetermined) Quercus geminata - Quercus myrtifolia - Serenoa repens - Sideroxylon tenax - Ximenia americana Scrub