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CEGL007033 Quercus virginiana - Sabal palmetto - Persea borbonia / Myrcianthes fragrans Forest

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Live Oak - Cabbage Palmetto - Redbay / Twinberry Forest

Colloquial Name: Florida Atlantic Coastal Tropical/Temperate Maritime Hammock

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: Tropical/temperate maritime hammocks of the eastern coast of Florida, in mid-peninsula, characteristically with oak canopy and tropical subcanopy. Characteristic species include Quercus virginiana, Sabal palmetto, Persea borbonia, Myrcianthes fragrans, Ardisia escallonoides, and Psychotria nervosa.

Diagnostic Characteristics: No Data Available

Rationale for Nominal Species or Physiognomic Features: No Data Available

Classification Comments: No Data Available

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

Physiognomy and Structure: No Data Available

Floristics: Characteristic species include Quercus virginiana, Sabal palmetto, Persea borbonia, Myrcianthes fragrans, Ardisia escallonoides, and Psychotria nervosa.

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  These tropical/temperate maritime hammocks are found on the eastern coast of Florida.

Geographic Range: Tropical/temperate maritime hammocks of the eastern coast of Florida.

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  FL




Confidence Level: Moderate

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: G1

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: No Data Available

Concept Author(s): A.S. Weakley

Author of Description: A.S. Weakley

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 02-01-95

  • FNAI [Florida Natural Areas Inventory]. 2010a. Guide to the natural communities of Florida: 2010 edition. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, FL. 228 pp. [https://fnai.org/naturalcommguide.cfm]
  • Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.