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A.726 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.726
Reference: EcoArt 2002
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.2359.A726
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: III.A.1.N.c
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Code: A.726
  Scientific: STRUMPFIA MARITIMA SHRUBLAND ALLIANCE
  Common: Pride-of-Big-Pine Shrubland Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Strumpfia maritima Shrubland Alliance