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Limpopo Mopane Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Limpopo Mopane Macrogroup
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This macrogroup is formed by the savanna communities occurring in the Limpopo province of South Africa and neighboring Zimbabwe, between 300 and 800 m elevation, on undulating to hilly plains with a variety of soils from deep clayey to deep sandy to shallow skeletal types of soils. The mean annual rainfall ranges from 300-550 mm and is strongly seasonal (summer). The vegetation varies from woodland to shrubland to more open savanna. Commonly the dominant species is <i>Colophospermum mopane</i>, but other dominants are <i>Combretum apiculatum, Terminalia prunioides, Terminalia sericea, Grewia flava, Acacia tortilis ssp. heteracantha, Acacia senegal ssp. leiorhachis, Acacia nigrescens, Adansonia digitata</i>, and <i>Sclerocarya birrea ssp. caffra</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40681-{AD12BC28-199E-48A8-9F9B-3E45E1243A5F}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 01-May-2019 to: ongoing
     
  • status: accepted
  • Community's Parent: Mopane Savanna Division
  • This Community's Level: Macrogroup
  • This Community's Children: [none]
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  Code: M363
  Scientific: Limpopo Mopane Macrogroup