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Llanos Flooded Savanna Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Llanos Flooded Savanna Macrogroup
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This macrogroup represents savannas that get flooded seasonally for varying periods of time to almost permanently depending on their distribution along the gradient of topographic differences in the floodplains of streams and rivers across the Orinoquian Llanos of Colombia and Venezuela. From palm savannas with <i>Copernicia tectorum</i> in relatively higher areas but with clayish, ill-drained soils, flooded seasonally, to only herbaceous savanna in lower and flat areas of the floodplain with undefined drainage systems which remain almost permanently inundated or waterlogged. The seasonal flooding savannas are dominated by <i>Leersia hexandra, Mesosetum</i> sp., <i>Trachypogon spicatus (= Trachypogon montufari), Paspalum carinatum, Trachypogon plumosus, Paspalum stellatum, Sorghastrum setosum (= Sorghastrum parviflorum), Axonopus purpusii</i>, and besides the <i>Copernicia</i> palm, they include other species in the open shrub or tree layer. In the lower areas and with longer flooding, the diagnostic species are <i>Arundinella hispida (= Arundinella confinis), Pistia stratiotes, Paspalum fasciculatum, Paspalum fluitans (= Paspalum repens), Hymenachne amplexicaulis, Eragrostis japonica (= Eragrostis glomerata), Luziola spruceana, Eleocharis interstincta</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40951-{DFACE086-E715-4C71-9182-17A6E359E1D7}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Apr-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.885039 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: M715
  Scientific: Llanos Flooded Savanna Macrogroup