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Kalahari Salt Pan Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Kalahari Salt Pan Macrogroup Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: The salt pans in the Kalahari Desert are a group of several huge to small pans located in Botswana to the southeast of the Okavango delta. They were left after the desiccation of the enormous Lake Makgadikgadi and riverbeds in the basin, which dried up thousands of years ago. The salt pans area is about 16,000 square km; some of the pans are very large (about 5000 km2), while others are small like ponds. They are covered most of the year by a dry, salty clay crust, and seasonally have very shallow water. The fringes of the pans are salt marshes with <i>Sporobolus spicatus</i> and the spiny grass <i>Odyssea paucinervis</i> and other species such as <i>Portulaca oleracea, Sporobolus tenellus</i>, and <i>Suaeda moquinii (= Suaeda fruticosa)</i>. Further out these are circled by grasslands of <i>Odyssea paucinervis</i> and <i>Cynodon dactylon</i> with <i>Pennisetum ciliare (= Cenchrus ciliaris)</i> and <i>Eriochloa meyeriana</i> dominating the crests of calcrete escarpments. <i>Hyphaene</i> palms fringe the drainage lines.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40772-{3128A879-FEC0-4469-A19C-D5A6DAE312ED} 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: Southern African Salt Pan Division This Community's Level: Macrogroup This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.861770 NatureServe Explorer   Code: M468   Scientific: Kalahari Salt Pan Macrogroup