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CEGL007192 Albizia julibrissin Ruderal Forest

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Silktree Ruderal Forest

Colloquial Name: Ruderal Silktree Forest

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: Forests dominated by scattered to dense Albizia julibrissin, an exotic tree. These forests occur on mesic substrates, in disturbed situations on slopes, urban abandoned lands, and other situations where this exotic has taken over a disturbed, mesic to dry-mesic site. Stands are mostly 3-7 m tall.

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: The range of this type is limited northward by the relative lack of cold-hardiness of the above-ground stems of Albizia.

Similar NVC Types: No Data Available
note: No Data Available

Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available

Floristics: No Data Available

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  No Data Available

Geographic Range: No Data Available

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  AL, AR, FL, GA?, KY, MS, TN




Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: GNA

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: This type was archived at one time and then resurrected on 2000-09-22.

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: No Data Available

Concept Author(s): Southeastern Ecology Group

Author of Description: Southeastern Ecology Group

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 11-26-97

  • Schotz, A., H. Summer, and R. White, Jr. 2008. Vascular plant inventory and ecological community classification for Little River Canyon National Preserve. NatureServe, Durham, NC. 244 pp.
  • Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.