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Fynbos Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Fynbos Macrogroup
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This macrogroup encompasses the vegetation types of South Africa that meet the following requirements: a short shrubland or grassland (the latter with >5% Restionaceae), with ericoid shrubs (small-leaved, principally in the families Ericaceae, Asteraceae, Rhamnaceae, Thymelaeaceae and Rutaceae), and elements of Proteaceae. It occurs mostly on nutrient-poor, sandy soils, but also on limestone, leached clay soils derived from shale and granite, and gravelly soils derived from duricrust outcrops and alluvial sediments. The communities are driven by natural hot summer fires with a recurrence of 10-30 years (or more extremely 5-50). These vegetation types occur mainly on the Cape Fold Belt (north-south and east-west mountain chains and wetter valleys) and between the mountains and the Indian Ocean in the south, only in South Africa. There are outliers farther north and farther up on mountains of Namaqualand. The average annual precipitation is of 540 mm, but with very large differences among types, from as low as 100 mm in the Namaqualand Sand Fynbos up to 1300 mm for the Kogelberg Sandstone Fynbos at high elevation. The rainfall is mostly in winter but it varies towards the edges of the distribution of the biome, i.e., with summer rainfall in the easternmost occurrences. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40649-{ABA97F6A-D9EA-48D7-AC2F-EBB6A96B55ED}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-May-2019 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.860417 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: M320
  Scientific: Fynbos Macrogroup