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CEGL003822 Quercus geminata - Quercus myrtifolia - Serenoa repens - Sideroxylon tenax - Ximenia americana Scrub
Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Sand Live Oak - Myrtle Oak - Saw Palmetto - Tough Bully - Tallow-wood Scrub
Colloquial Name: Southeast Florida Coastal Scrub
Hierarchy Level: Association
Type Concept: This coastal scrub association occurs in southeastern Florida, in southern Brevard, Martin, and Palm Beach counties. Ximenia americana and Cassytha filiformis reflect a more southern floristic association in this coastal oak scrub community. It forms a narrow strip along the coast on acidic sands, often immediately adjacent to a southeastern coastal strand community on alkaline sands of more recent deposits in which the shell component has not yet been leached out. The community lacks the Pinus clausa found in inland scrubs along this coast, such as at Jonathon Dickinson State Park in Martin County. Other characteristic species include Quercus chapmanii, Persea humilis, and Cassytha filiformis.
Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available
Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available
Classification Comments: Sideroxylon tenax in these scrubs fits the description of Sideroxylon lacuum given by Small (1933) and Lakela (1963) from specimens in scrubs on acidic sands in Highlands County, Florida. Scrub-type plants on acidic sands differ from strand-type plants on alkaline soils in being short, spiny, rhizomatous shrubs (versus tall shrubs/small trees in the coastal strand), having stiff leaves less than 4 cm long (versus drooping leaves up to 7 cm long) and in having a dull rusty tomentum on the underside of the leaves (versus a lustrous, pale golden tomentum) (Lakela 1963). Sideroxylon lacuum has not been recognized as distinct from Sideroxylon tenax in recent floras (Wunderlin 1998). This ''scrub-type'' of Sideroxylon tenax also differentiates southern coastal scrubs from those to the north.
See Johnson and Muller (1993a, 1993b) and Johnson et al. (1992b).
See Johnson and Muller (1993a, 1993b) and Johnson et al. (1992b).
Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
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Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available
Floristics: No Data Available
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: This community forms a narrow strip along the coast on acidic sands, often immediately adjacent to a southeastern coastal strand community on alkaline sands of more recent deposits in which the shell component has not yet been leached out.
Geographic Range: Community occurs sporadically from southern Brevard to northern Palm Beach County, Florida.
Nations: US
States/Provinces: FL
Plot Analysis Summary:
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Confidence Level: Moderate
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: G1
Greasons: No Data Available
| Type | Name | Database Code | Classification Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class | 2 Shrub & Herb Vegetation Class | C02 | 2 |
| Subclass | 2.B Temperate & Boreal Grassland & Shrubland Subclass | S18 | 2.B |
| Formation | 2.B.4 Temperate to Polar Scrub & Herb Coastal Vegetation Formation | F005 | 2.B.4 |
| Division | 2.B.4.Na Eastern North American Coastal Scrub & Herb Vegetation Division | D026 | 2.B.4.Na |
| Macrogroup | 2.B.4.Na.2 American Beachgrass - Sea-oats - Seaside Goldenrod Dune & Grassland Macrogroup | M057 | 2.B.4.Na.2 |
| Group | 2.B.4.Na.2.a Wax-myrtle - Sea-oats - Shore Little Bluestem Dune & Grassland Group | G494 | 2.B.4.Na.2.a |
| Alliance | A3689 Sand Live Oak - Myrtle Oak Dune Shrubland Alliance | A3689 | 2.B.4.Na.2.a |
| Association | CEGL003822 Sand Live Oak - Myrtle Oak - Saw Palmetto - Tough Bully - Tallow-wood Scrub | CEGL003822 | 2.B.4.Na.2.a |
Concept Lineage: No Data Available
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: = Oak Scrub (southeast) (Johnson and Muller 1993a)
= Scrub vegetation (southeast coast Florida) (Johnson and Muller 1993b)
= Scrub vegetation (southeast coast Florida) (Johnson and Muller 1993b)
- Cox, J. A. 1981. Status and distribution of the Florida scrub jay. Unpublished report to the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Florida State Museum, Gainesville.
- Johnson, A. F., J. W. Muller, and K. A. Bettinger. 1992b. An assessment of Florida''s remaining coastal upland natural communities: Southeast Florida. The Nature Conservancy, Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee. 29 pp. plus appendices.
- Johnson, A. F., and J. W. Muller. 1993a. An assessment of Florida''s remaining coastal upland natural communities: Final summary report. The Nature Conservancy, Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee. 37 pp.
- Johnson, A. F., and J. W. Muller. 1993b. An assessment of Florida''s remaining coastal upland natural communities: Northeast Florida. The Nature Conservancy, Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee. 10 pp. plus appendices.
- Lakela, O. 1963. The identity of Bumelia lacuum Small. Rhodora 65:280-283.
- Small, J. K. 1933. Manual of the southeastern flora. Parts I-II. Hafner Publishing Company, New York.
- Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.
- Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville.