Name:
Pantanal Floodplain Wet Meadow & Shrubland Macrogroup
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This macrogroup includes the shrubland and grassland communities flooded seasonally in the Brazilian Pantanal. One of the types is characterized by a combination of seasonally flooded open savanna surrounding shrublands growing on circular mounds, which can have a diameter of 1 or more and a height of 0.1-2 m. The woody vegetation on the mounds includes <i>Alibertia edulis, Andira cuyabensis, Allagoptera leucocalyx, Byrsonima chrysophylla, Byrsonima coccolobifolia, Copaifera martii, Didymopanax distractiflorus, Dipteryx alata, Siparuna guianensis, Tapirira guianensis, Virola sebifera, Vismia minutiflora, Tabebuia aurea, Tabebuia serratifolia, Eugenia aurata, Erythroxylum suberosum, Pseudobombax longiflorum, Maprounea guianensis</i>, among others. On the floodplains of the Paraguay River in the transitional area between the Pantanal and the humid Chaco, savannas typically have a layer of the palm <i>Copernicia alba</i>. Also part of this macrogroup are semipermanently flooded or waterlogged meadows and open shrublands surrounding lagoons and depressions of the Pantanal. These are formed by <i>Cyperus giganteus, Eleocharis elegans, Rhabdadenia pohlii, Thalia geniculata, Polygonum acuminatum, Hymenachne amplexicaulis, Eleocharis acutangula, Fuirena robusta, Fuirena umbellata</i>, and <i>Eichhornia azurea</i>.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40962-{17ED8CEE-6C41-427C-B064-B661FE824B99}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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