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Casasia clusiifolia - Guapira discolor Forest Alliance | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Casasia clusiifolia - Guapira discolor Forest Alliance
Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
Description: This alliance includes diverse-canopied forests with a short canopy height of 3-8 m on coastal berms formed from storm-deposited shell hash of biogenic origin, consisting of limestone sand, shell, and calcareous algal fragments. Typical canopy components include Guapira discolor, Eugenia foetida, Metopium toxiferum, Pithecellobium keyense, Casasia clusiifolia, Suriana maritima, Conocarpus erectus, Bursera simaruba, Coccoloba uvifera, Eugenia axillaris, Coccothrinax argentata, Thrinax radiata, Reynosia septentrionalis, Sideroxylon celastrinum (= Bumelia celastrina), Piscidia piscipula, Erithalis fruticosa, and the exotic Casuarina equisetifolia. This alliance occurs in the Florida Keys and in extreme southern peninsular Florida. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.21687.CASASIACLUSIIFO
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: Casasia clusiifolia - Guapira discolor Forest Alliance
  Translated: Seven-year-apple - Blolly Forest Alliance
  Code: A.34
  UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.124698 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo