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African Tropical Freshwater Marsh (Dembos) Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: African Tropical Freshwater Marsh (Dembos) Macrogroup Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: These shallow wetlands are generally found in higher-rainfall flat plateau areas of Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola and southern DRC. They are characterized by grasses, rushes and sedges, contrasting with surrounding woodland such as Miombo woodland. They may be substantially dry at the end of the dry season, revealing grey soils or black clays, but unlike a flooded grassland, they retain wet lines of drainage through the dry season. They are inundated (waterlogged) in the wet season but not generally above the height of the vegetation, and any open water surface is usually confined to streams, rivers and small ponds or lagoons at the lowest point.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40756-{1FABC738-EB8A-47D3-AF3C-E7BFFEC44CB3} 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: Tropical African Herbaceous Swamp & Aquatic Vegetation Division This Community's Level: Macrogroup This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.861753 NatureServe Explorer   Code: M452   Scientific: African Tropical Freshwater Marsh (Dembos) Macrogroup