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CEGL003807 Ligustrum sinense Ruderal Upland Shrubland

Type Concept Sentence: No Data Available


Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Chinese Privet Ruderal Upland Shrubland

Colloquial Name: Ruderal Upland Chinese Privet Shrubland

Hierarchy Level:  Association

Type Concept: This shrubland association comprises upland and wetland areas heavily infested with the exotic Ligustrum sinense to the exclusion of canopy trees.

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: This community is usually a monoculture of Ligustrum sinense.

Dynamics:  No Data Available

Environmental Description:  This community exists in disturbed bottomlands and uplands, usually highly fragmented, where they can establish and exclude almost all native species.

Geographic Range: This invasive community is found throughout the southeastern United States from Virginia to Florida and west to Arkansas and Louisiana.

Nations: US

States/Provinces:  AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC?, SC, TN




Confidence Level: Low - Poorly Documented

Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available

Grank: GNA

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: 03-27-03

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