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CEGL003119 Ruppia (cirrhosa, maritima) Aquatic Vegetation
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: (Spiral Ditchgrass, Widgeongrass) Aquatic Vegetation
Colloquial Name: No Data Available
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This association grows in saline, seasonally or permanently flooded marshes, channels, ponds, rivers or coastal wetlands of California and possibly Nevada. Inland habitats usually have saline soils and low precipitation. Ruppia cirrhosa or Ruppia maritima are the sole or dominant herbs forming submerged beds in the water. Utricularia macrorhiza, Najas guadalupensis, Zannichellia palustris, Potamogeton foliosus, and/or Myriophyllum sp. may be present.
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: Compare this association to ~Stuckenia pectinata - Ruppia maritima Aquatic Vegetation (CEGL002004)$$.
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available
Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: Ruppia cirrhosa or Ruppia maritima are the sole or dominant herbs forming submerged beds in the water. Utricularia macrorhiza (= Utricularia vulgaris), Najas guadalupensis, Zannichellia palustris, Potamogeton foliosus, and/or Myriophyllum sp. may be present.
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: No Data Available
Geographic Range: Restricted to brackish marshes along the California coast or within low-lying areas of high evaporation and low freshwater inputs.
Nations: US
States/Provinces: CA, NV?
Plot Analysis Summary:
http://vegbank.org/natureserve/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.684142
Confidence Level: Moderate
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: G1G3
Greasons: No Data Available
| Type | Name | Database Code | Classification Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class | 5 Aquatic Vegetation Class | C05 | 5 |
| Subclass | 5.B Freshwater Aquatic Vegetation Subclass | S13 | 5.B |
| Formation | 5.B.2 Temperate to Polar Freshwater Aquatic Vegetation Formation | F057 | 5.B.2 |
| Division | 5.B.2.Na North American Freshwater Aquatic Vegetation Division | D049 | 5.B.2.Na |
| Macrogroup | 5.B.2.Na.2 Rocky Mountain Pond-lily - Pacific Mosquito Fern - Western Waterweed Western North American Freshwater Aquatic Vegetation Macrogroup | M109 | 5.B.2.Na.2 |
| Group | 5.B.2.Na.2.a Pond-lily species - Pondweed species - Duckweed species Freshwater Aquatic Vegetation Group | G544 | 5.B.2.Na.2.a |
| Alliance | A3893 Common Mare''s-tail - Widgeonweed species - Bur-reed species Aquatic Vegetation Alliance | A3893 | 5.B.2.Na.2.a |
| Association | CEGL003119 (Spiral Ditchgrass, Widgeongrass) Aquatic Vegetation | CEGL003119 | 5.B.2.Na.2.a |
Concept Lineage: No Data Available
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = Ruppia (cirrhosa, maritima) (Ditch-grass or widgeon-grass mats) Alliance (Sawyer et al. 2009) [52.202.00]
> Ruppia cirrhosa - algae (Sawyer et al. 2009) [52.202.02]
? Ruppia (Odion et al. 1992)
> Ruppia cirrhosa - algae (Sawyer et al. 2009) [52.202.02]
? Ruppia (Odion et al. 1992)
- Odion, D. C., R. M. Callaway, W. R. Ferren, and F. W. Davis. 1992. Vegetation of Fish Slough, an Owens Valley wetland ecosystem. Pages 171-196 in: C.A. Hall and B. Widawski, editors. The history of water: Eastern Sierra Nevada, Owens Valley, White-Inyo Mountains. White Mountains Research Station Symposium 4. University of California, White Mountain Research Station, Los Angeles, CA.
- Sawyer, J. O., T. Keeler-Wolf, and J. Evens. 2009. A manual of California vegetation. Second edition. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento CA. 1300 pp.
- Sawyer, J. O., and T. Keeler-Wolf. 1995. A manual of California vegetation. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento. 471 pp.
- Thorne, R. F. 1982. The desert and other transmontane plant communities of southern California. Aliso 10(2):219-257.
- Western Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Boulder, CO.