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Southern Andean Montane Salt Marsh Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Southern Andean Montane Salt Marsh Macrogroup
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: Hygro-halophilous shrub-, grass- or forb-dominated communities of the Mediterranean Andes of the southern extreme of Bolivia, central Chile and central-northwestern Argentina, growing between 1500-3200 m asl. They develop in the edges or margins of depressions of saline endorheic basins under xeric or desertic climate. Communities in the northern portion include <i>Atriplex lampa, Atriplex deserticola, Atriplex atacamensis, Suaeda foliosa</i>, and <i>Lycium</i> sp., and those distributed farther south include <i>Heterostachys ritteriana, Atriplex patagonica, Suaeda divaricata, Sarcocornia perennis (= Salicornia ambigua), Distichlis scoparia, Distichlis spicata, Distichlis caespitosa, Poa pugionifolia, Nitrophila australis</i>, and <i>Puccinellia</i> spp. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40991-{7004848A-F1CD-4E17-A63E-9667675FF9B2}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Apr-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.885107 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: M761
  Scientific: Southern Andean Montane Salt Marsh Macrogroup