Name:
Tumbesian Xeromorphic Scrub & Woodland Macrogroup
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
The macrogroup includes xeromorphic woodland and also more dense, shorter scrub distributed along the Pacific littoral and a few kilometers inland, from central Ecuador to northern Peru where its limit is the Sechura Desert to the south. It occurs on sandy-clayish soils and with a pronounced dry season. Woodlands are 5-6 m high on average and may contain a few emergents of up to 8-10 m. Component tree species have small and sclerophyllous leaves. Columnar cacti are abundant and become part of the shrub stratum. Grasses are uncommon but broad-leaved herbs are present in the lower stratum together with short cacti. In the southernmost portion of its distribution it becomes less species-rich and mostly dominated by <i>Prosopis pallida</i> in association with <i>Acacia macracantha</i> and several species of <i>Capparis</i>. More characteristic and diverse communities are typically formed by <i>Bursera graveolens, Eriotheca ruizii, Erythrina smithiana, Prosopis pallida, Pithecellobium excelsum, Caesalpinia paipay, Loxopterygium huasango, Bougainvillea peruviana, Cordia lutea, Maytenus octagona, Croton rivinifolius, Croton glabellus, Hippomane mancinella, Jatropha curcas, Capparis</i> spp., <i>Armatocereus cartwrightianus, Monvillea diffusa, Abutilon pubistamineum, Ipomoea pes-caprae, Ipomoea carnea, Pisonia</i> sp., <i>Jacquinia sprucei, Celtis iguanaea, Trema micrantha, Urera caracasana, Sideroxylon obtusifolium, Cryptocarpus pyriformis, Luffa operculata, Heliotropium angiospermum, Neoraimondia gigantea, Cercidium praecox, Pilosocereus tweedianus, Monvillea maritima, Taarbranthocereus</i> sp., <i>Opuntia macbridae</i>, and <i>Malocactus bellavistensis</i>.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40997-{060EA14C-50EF-440F-986C-326B7B5A01CF}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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