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Sabal palmetto - Annona glabra - Pterocarpus officinalis Swamp Forest Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Sabal palmetto - Annona glabra - Pterocarpus officinalis Swamp Forest Macrogroup Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This macrogroup includes tree-dominated, stillwater wetlands, including hydric hammock, and tree swamps that occur amidst low-lying marshes of south Florida, Cuba and Puerto Rico, and possibly other Caribbean islands. They represent either poorly drained depressions, emergent tree islands, slightly higher than the surrounding marshes. Composition and dominance vary depending on the community, but it is characterized by the combination of broad-leaved evergreen trees of tropical affinities, temperate broad-leaved deciduous trees, and the deciduous needle-leaved <i>Taxodium</i> spp. Species common to the different settings where the macrogroup occurs are <i>Annona glabra, Chrysobalanus icaco, Fraxinus caroliniana, Ilex cassine, Magnolia virginiana, Psychotria nervosa, Quercus laurifolia</i>, and <i>Sabal palmetto</i>. Composition of the Florida bayhead swamp is closest to the Cuban palm swamps because of the shared presence of <i>Conocarpus erectus</i> and the palm <i>Acoelorraphe wrightii</i>. Communities within this macrogroup are very gently sloping or depression forested wetlands usually saturated and occasionally inundated, often with peat accumulation on sand/marl/limestone substrate. In the case of Florida's "hydric hammocks," they are hardwood wetlands occupying flat lowlands with high water tables or ponded surface water, often underlain by limestone substrate and adjacent to coastal marshes. The most important natural controlling factors for vegetation of the macrogroup are climate and hydrology.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40871-{F9E1DD68-1588-46F2-8EC5-7ED2EEC5DE3F} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 07-Oct-2015 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Caribbean-Central American Flooded & Swamp Forest Division This Community's Level: Macrogroup This Community's Children: Show/Hide   Annona glabra / Chrysobalanus icaco Swamp Forest Group		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.884750 NatureServe Explorer   Code: M617   Scientific: Sabal palmetto - Annona glabra - Pterocarpus officinalis Swamp Forest Macrogroup