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A.732 | EcoArt 2002
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Name: A.732
Reference: EcoArt 2002
Description: This alliance consists of stunted, non-tidal mangrove areas dominated by ~Conocarpus erectus$. Other mangrove species may occur as well, especially ~Avicennia germinans$ 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.2365.A732
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.h
  • This Community's Level: Alliance
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Scientific: CONOCARPUS ERECTUS SATURATED SHRUBLAND ALLIANCE
  Code: A.732
  Common: Buttonwood Saturated Shrubland Alliance
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(undetermined) Conocarpus erectus Saturated Shrubland Alliance