Name:
Northern Chaco Palm Swamp Macrogroup
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
These are palm forests of the northern Chaco in Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina. They are semi-open to semi-dense forests, dominated by the Carandá palm (<i>Copernicia alba</i>) associated with various hygrophilous trees and shrubs species. They develop on alkaline soils that get saturated, of fine silty clay texture, and often somewhat brackish and distributed in topographic depressions flooded by precipitation or river overflow. The following species are diagnostic: <i>Copernicia alba, Microlobium paraguensis, Acacia monacantha, Muellera fluvialis, Coccoloba paraguariensis, Combretum lanceolatum, Sphinctanthus microphyllus, Prosopis vinalillo, Prosopis elata, Prosopis ruscifolia, Prosopis chilensis, Prosopis nigra, Tabebuia nodosa, Parkinsonia aculeata, Pennisetum frutescens, Acacia caven, Panicum prionitis, Panicum trichanthum, Sporobolus phleoides, Gouinia paraguayensis, Schizachyrium condensatum (= Andropogon condensatus), Heteropogon contortus, Eupatorium</i> spp., <i>Lycium</i> spp., and <i>Solanum</i> spp.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40902-{7DCC16D7-3876-450B-AEC9-14C2A6D37AA5}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
0
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