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Xeric Puna Succulent Scrub Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Xeric Puna Succulent Scrub Macrogroup
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This macrogroup includes several xeromorphic communities of the arid high Andean Puna in western Bolivia, northern Chile, northwestern Argentina, and southwestern Peru in an elevational range from 2900-4000 m on the slopes and on the Andean plateau. Variations in structure and composition depend on altitude, topography, moisture and soil characteristics, though in general soils tend to be poor and eroded. Some communities are dominated by columnar cacti <i>Trichocereus atacamensis</i>, accompanied by <i>Mutisia lanigera</i> and <i>Lophopappus tarapacanus</i>, and others are represented by a more diverse set of shrub species, forbs and grasses, including: <i>Fabiana ramulosa, Fabiana denudata, Diplostephium meyenii, Oreocereus variispinus, Adesmia verrucosa, Junellia bryoides, Oreocereus leucotrichus, Spergularia fasciculata, Opuntia conoidea</i>. The macrogroup also includes psammophilous communities in the Andean plateau of Bolivia and Argentina formed by very open shrublands dominated by local endemics such as <i>Lampaya castellani, Acantholippia salsoloides</i>, accompanied by cacti and grasses <i>Opuntia glomerata, Parastrephia lepidophylla, Sporobolus rigens var. atacamensis</i>, and <i>Panicum chloroleucum</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:41015-{7B7399C5-D7DE-4921-96CC-D4A5492F2141}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Apr-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.885143 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: M787
  Scientific: Xeric Puna Succulent Scrub Macrogroup