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Prosopis glandulosa / Pleuraphis mutica Shrub Grassland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Prosopis glandulosa / Pleuraphis mutica Shrub Grassland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This is a shrub grassland type in the Southwest (known from Fort Bliss and Gray Ranch) and a minor type on White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. It is characterized by a very open, non-coppice-forming canopy of <i>Prosopis glandulosa</i> (18% cover) with an understory dominated by dense patches of <i>Pleuraphis mutica</i>. Other species are scarce, but <i>Sporobolus airoides</i> is sometimes present. The White Sands Missile Range site occupies a swale on a low-elevation alluvial flat located centrally within the Tularosa basin at an elevation of 1230 m (4040 feet). It occurs in a matrix with other basin grasslands and large barren alluvial flats. Soils are clayey and derived from fine-textured alluvial deposits from the surrounding mountains. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:30550-{C82AF37C-E255-4114-AA20-510A3721F61A}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 30-Aug-2012 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.685114 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL001641
  Translated: Honey Mesquite / Tobosa Grass Shrub Grassland
  Scientific: Prosopis glandulosa / Pleuraphis mutica Shrub Grassland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL001641
(similar) Prosopis glandulosa / Pleuraphis mutica Shrub Herbaceous Vegetation
(similar) Prosopis glandulosa / Pleuraphis mutica Shrub Herbaceous Vegetation