Name:
Northern Chaco Floodplain Forest & Woodland Macrogroup
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This macrogroup includes low forests and shrublands of closed canopy at 3-6 m high and scattered emergents up to 15 m tall, which is the vegetation of poorly drained soils with silt clayish texture that occur in the northern Chaco in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay in situations where the combination of the soils and the seasonal precipitation regime originate a microtopography of mounts and swales. The following list of species is diagnostic for this macrogroup: <i>Bulnesia sarmientoi, Aspidosperma triternatum, Tabebuia nodosa, Cordia bordasii, Erythroxylum patentissimum, Acanthosyris falcata, Calycophyllum multiflorum, Euglypha rojasiana, Trithrinax schizophylla, Prosopis nuda, Ruellia coerulea, Rojasia gracilis</i>, and <i>Cestrum guaraniticum</i>. It includes also the more humid floodplain forests of the northeastern Chaco in Argentina and Paraguay with higher seasonal precipitation and a more defined stream network. These forests are seasonally inundated or saturated and reach 15-18 m high. Their typical elements are <i>Schinopsis balansae, Astronium balansae, Diplokeleba floribunda, Aspidosperma triternatum, Prosopis nigra, Tabebuia nodosa, Albizia inundata, Sorocea saxicola, Maytenus ilicifolia, Calycophyllum multiflorum, Prosopis vinalillo, Trithrinax biflabellata</i>, and <i>Schinus fasciculatus</i>.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40900-{24C598FC-E423-4642-A3B2-09614E11A49A}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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