Name:
Cerrado Humid Forest Macrogroup
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
The macrogroup includes moist to sub-humid forests of the Cerrado and Chiquitania in transitional locations to the Amazon Basin or with additional moisture availability in the case of riparian, gallery forests. Multi-strata forests that can reach 25 m high, growing on well-drained ground and in a seasonal but humid climate. The predominant composition is from the Cerrado floristic region but with Amazonian elements. Some of the characteristic species are <i>Ocotea guianensis, Spondias mombin, Physocalymma scaberrimum, Hymenaea courbaril, Poeppigia procera, Casearia gossypiosperma, Cordia alliodora, Cedrela fissilis, Chusquea ramosissima, Pourouma cecropiifolia, Erytrochiton fallax, Phenakospermum guianensis, Albizia niopoides, Attalea phalerata, Cariniana estrellensis, Gallesia integrifolia, Protium heptaphyllum, Sapium marmieri, Sterculia apetala, Inga laurina (= Inga fagifolia), Inga ingoides</i>, and in riparian situations <i>Apuleia leiocarpa, Copaifera langsdorfii, Hymenaea courbaril, Guettarda viburnoides, Callisthene major, Cariniana rubra, Cheiloclinum cognatum, Guarea guidonia, Guarea kunthiana</i>.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40852-{14EB60D3-F275-4017-917D-FA237E233848}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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