Name:
Guajiran Seasonal Dry Forest Macrogroup
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This macrogroup includes seasonally dry deciduous to semi-deciduous forests distributed along the Caribbean coast of Colombia and Venezuela and inland, surrounding Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela and also on the foothills of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Perija range in Colombia, usually growing on alluvial-colluvial lowlands between sea level and 500 m elevation, depending on the location. They can attain a relatively complex, multi-layered structure with a dense canopy or, in the dry end of their gradient, have a more open canopy and less strata. In general those growing in the upper elevations have more moisture available (from precipitation and fog). Characteristic species from sub-humid to dry forests are <i>Cordia panamensis, Swartzia pinnata, Ocotea glandulosa, Hura crepitans, Cedrela odorata, Carapa guianensis, Roystonea olerace, Anacardium excelsum, Calycophyllum candidissimum, Brosimum alicastrum, Trophis racemosa, Simira klugii, Belencita nitida, Centrolobium paraense, Maytenus karstenii, Melicoccus bijugatus, Gustavia tejerae, Eugenia oblongifolia, Myroxylon balsamum, Triplaris lindeniana, Machaerium</i> spp., <i>Tabebuia chrysantha, Tabebuia serratifolia, Tabebuia heterophylla (= Tabebuia pentaphylla), Trichilia pleeana, Allophylus racemosus (= Allophylus occidentalis), Trophis racemosa, Eugenia mcvaughii, Acacia glomerosa, Lochocarpus punctatus, Coccoloba fallax, Guazuma ulmifolia, Enterolobium cf. cyclocarpum, Morisonia americana, Bursera graveolens, Ficus prinoides, Sabal mauritiiformis, Bactris minor, Bourreria cumanensis, Erythroxylum cumanense, Brownea penduliflora, Bauhinia multinervia (= Bauhinia megalandra), Senna bicapsularis (= Cassia emarginata), Calliandra caracasana, Inga punctata, Erythrina poeppigiana, Platymiscium diadelphum, Guaiacum officinale, Cochlospermum vitifolium, Jacquemontia cumanensis, Stenocereus griseus</i>.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40822-{72C848A0-0207-4172-88B9-F351AA636C09}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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