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Caribbean Montane Cloud Forest & Scrub Group | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Caribbean Montane Cloud Forest & Scrub Group Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This group consists of open woodlands of gnarled and twisted trees laden with mosses and other epiphytes, usually growing above 1600 m elevation in the Caribbean; though in the Luquillo Mountains in Puerto Rico and in John Crow Mountains in Jamaica, it occurs above 700 m. Stands have an irregular canopy which is typically 6-12 m high with trees with gnarled trunks, compact crowns and small leaves. The group also includes a short scrub, 1.5-2 m high, with many thorny shrubs and herbaceous-leaved succulents which grows on steep rocky ridges of the highest peaks of Luquillo Mountains (900-1050 m elevation), and of Sierra Maestra in Cuba, between 1800 and 1970 m.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40172-{353BD711-30CE-4697-A0E5-5532552CAF2C} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 04-Feb-2016 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Caribbean Montane Humid Forest Macrogroup This Community's Level: Group This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.860796 NatureServe Explorer   Code: G451   Scientific: Caribbean Montane Cloud Forest & Scrub Group