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Tiquilia hispidissima / Bouteloua breviseta - Mentzelia humilis Dwarf-shrub Grassland | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Tiquilia hispidissima / Bouteloua breviseta - Mentzelia humilis Dwarf-shrub Grassland
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This community occurs on interdune flats in a gypsum dune landscape in Trans-Pecos Texas. The very sparse shrub layer consists of <i>Yucca elata</i> and <i>Artemisia filifolia</i>. The sparse to dense dwarf-shrub layer is dominated by <i>Tiquilia hispidissima</i>, and also includes <i>Krameria lanceolata, Ephedra torreyana</i>, and <i>Nama carnosum</i>. The sparse to dense herb layer includes <i>Bouteloua breviseta, Bouteloua trifida, Mentzelia humilis, Thelesperma megapotamicum, Nerisyrenia linearifolia, Sartwellia flaveriae</i>, and other species, many of them gypsophiles or gypsum endemics. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:33358-{485139F6-9853-4BA6-875D-72B6EE8C47D8}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-Oct-1996 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.684782 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: CEGL004573
  Translated: Hairy Crinklemat / Gypsum Grama - Gypsum Blazingstar Dwarf-shrub Grassland
  Scientific: Tiquilia hispidissima / Bouteloua breviseta - Mentzelia humilis Dwarf-shrub Grassland
(convergence) and Synonyms:
(similar) CEGL004573
(similar) Tiquilia hispidissima / Bouteloua breviseta - Mentzelia humilis Dwarf-shrubland
(similar) Tiquilia hispidissima / Bouteloua breviseta - Mentzelia humilis Dwarf-shrubland