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CEGL004933 Chilopsis linearis / Brickellia laciniata Scrub

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Desert-willow / Splitleaf Brickellbush Scrub

Colloquial Name: No Data Available

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: This association occurs on limestone cobble beds of intermittently flooded streams in western Texas. Characteristic species include Chilopsis linearis, Brickellia laciniata, Indigofera lindheimeriana, Fallugia paradoxa, Platanus occidentalis, Salix nigra, and Baccharis spp.

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: No Data Available

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  No Data Available

Geographic Range: This association occurs on limestone cobble beds of intermittently flooded streams in western Texas.

Nations: MX?,US

States/Provinces:  TX




Confidence Level: Low

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: G3G4

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: = Desertwillow Cover Type (Plumb 1988)

Concept Author(s): J. Poole and A.S. Weakley

Author of Description: J. Poole and A.S. Weakley

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 10-01-12

  • Plumb, G. A. 1988. An algorithmic approach to automated vegetation mapping of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 449 pp.
  • Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.