Name:
Upper Amazon Wet Meadow & Shrubland Macrogroup
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
The macrogroup includes flooding herbaceous communities occurring in different situations in the upper Amazon Basin. More widespread but smaller in extent are the wet meadows of oxbow lakes left by meandering rivers, with vegetation characterized by large-leaved forbs, palms and a few tree species, also large floating mats formed by grasses and sedges in large rivers. Included as well are the short forest and herbaceous vegetation mosaic in the mounts and depressions of the periodically inundated landscape of the flat floodplains surrounding the Bolivian Beni savannas in the southwestern Amazon Basin of Bolivia and Peru. Some of the diagnostic species of this type are <i>Bellucia grossularioides, Cardiopetalum calophyllum, Coussarea hydrangeifolia, Erythroxylum daphnites, Miconia</i> spp., <i>Qualea grandiflora, Simarouba amara, Xylopia aromatica, Curatella americana, Siparuna guianensis, Byrsonima chrysophylla, Andropogon</i> spp., <i>Fimbristylis dichotoma, Mesosetum penicillatum, Paspalum virgatum, Trachypogon plumosus, Thrasya petrosa, Sorghastrum setosum, Arundinella hispida</i>, and <i>Sacciolepis myuros</i>.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40958-{132FCD25-09B7-404A-94D5-86E0B1EA5455}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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