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CEGL003533 Pinus elliottii var. densa / Sabal palmetto / Schizachyrium rhizomatum - Muhlenbergia filipes - Rhynchospora divergens Woodland

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Florida Slash Pine / Cabbage Palmetto / Florida Little Bluestem - Gulf Hairawn Muhly - Spreading Beaksedge Woodland

Colloquial Name: South Florida Pine Prairie

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: This community is restricted to the tropical southwestern tip of the Florida peninsula. If it occurs in the temperate Florida Peninsula Ecoregion, it is peripheral and incidental there. This community has estimated hydroperiods of 1-45 days per year, averaging six days per year, though saturated for much longer annual periods.

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 community is restricted to the tropical southwestern tip of the Florida peninsula. If it occurs in the temperate Florida Peninsula Ecoregion, it is peripheral and incidental there.

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  FL




Confidence Level: Low

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: G1G2

Greasons: No Data Available


Concept Lineage: No Data Available

Predecessors: No Data Available

Obsolete Names: No Data Available

Obsolete Parents: No Data Available

Synonomy: = Pine forests (wet pineland) (Duever et al. 1986)

Concept Author(s): A.S. Weakley

Author of Description: A.S. Weakley

Acknowledgements: No Data Available

Version Date: 04-01-95

  • Duever, M. J., J. E. Carlson, J. F. Meeder, L. C. Duever, L. H. Gunderson, L. A. Riopelle, T. R. Alexander, R. L. Myers, and D. P. Spangler. 1986. The Big Cypress National Preserve. National Audubon Society Research Report No. 8. National Audubon Society, New York. 444 pp.
  • Southeastern Ecology Working Group of NatureServe. No date. International Ecological Classification Standard: International Vegetation Classification. Terrestrial Vegetation. NatureServe, Durham, NC.