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Northern Amazon Floodplain Forest Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Northern Amazon Floodplain Forest Macrogroup Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019 Description: This macrogroup includes several types of forest inundated by whitewater or by clearwater rivers, from tall multi-strata forest of the white riverbanks, to those in the depressions or low terraces, with hydromorphic, acidic soils. These areas are occupied by marsh and low forest communities with <i>Montrichardia arborescens, Annona hypoglauca, Pseudobombax munguba, Heliconia marginata, Costus scaber, Theobroma obovatum, Oxandra mediocris, Oxandra polyantha, Elaeoluma glabrescens, Vatairea guianensis, Euterpe precatoria, Oenocarpus bataua, Mauritia flexuosa, Tabebuia insignis var. monophylla, Mauritiella aculeata, Ocotea aff. neblinae, Rhodognaphalopsis brevipes, Euterpe catinga</i>, and <i>Clusia spathulifolia</i>. The macrogroup also includes blackwater- or clearwater-inundated swamps with an irregular flooding regime and characterized by <i>Caryocar microcarpum, Macrolobium acaciifolium</i>, and <i>Cynometra marginata</i>. The macrogroup is distributed in Colombia in the lower Caqueta and the Apaporis sub-basins and in the Japura River sub-basin in Brazil.  Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40890-{5E41998B-CFCD-463D-8D86-A43D0DBDBC15} Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 17-Apr-2014 to: ongoing
	status: accepted Community's Parent: Amazonian Flooded & Swamp Forest Division This Community's Level: Macrogroup This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.884774 NatureServe Explorer   Code: M637   Scientific: Northern Amazon Floodplain Forest Macrogroup