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A3879 Sesuvium verrucosum Desert Salt Mudflat Scrub Alliance
Type Concept Sentence: This alliance has an open scrub canopy dominated by Sesuvium verrucosum, generally at low cover (<25% total vegetation). These alkaline wetlands occur on moist or seasonally dry flats and margins of intermittently flooded desert playas and coastal plains across the warm deserts of North America.
Common (Translated Scientific) Name: Verrucose Sea-purslane Desert Salt Mudflat Scrub Alliance
Colloquial Name: Verrucose Sea-purslane Desert Salt Mudflat Scrub
Hierarchy Level: Alliance
Type Concept: Stands have an open scrub canopy characterized by saline wet species such as Sesuvium verrucosum. Other species present may include Atriplex spp., Distichlis spicata, Eleocharis palustris, Sporobolus spp., Suaeda moquinii, or Tiquilia spp. Ephemeral herbaceous species may have high cover periodically. Stands generally have low cover of vegetation and may be sparse (<10% total vegetation). Sites are moist or seasonally dry flats and margins of intermittently flooded desert playas, and may extend to coast. This desert scrub alkaline wetland alliance occurs across the warm deserts of North America, extending into the Central Valley and San Joaquin Valley in California south into Baja California and in the Trans-Pecos region of western Texas.
Diagnostic Characteristics: This alkaline, saline wet flats warm desert scrub is identified by an open scrub canopy characterized by saline wet species such as Sesuvium verrucosum.
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: Stands have an open scrub canopy characterized by saline wet species such as Sesuvium verrucosum. Other species present may include Atriplex spp., Distichlis spicata, Eleocharis palustris, Sporobolus spp., Suaeda moquinii, or Tiquilia spp. Ephemeral herbaceous species may have high cover periodically. Stands generally have low cover of vegetation and may be sparse (<10% total vegetation).
Dynamics: No Data Available
Environmental Description: This alliance occurs on saline wet flats, hypersaline flats, seasonally moist and dry flats, and margins of intermittently flooded desert playas.
Geographic Range: This saline wet scrub alliance is found in suitable sites across the warm deserts of North America, extending into the Central Valley and San Joaquin Valley in California south into Baja California and in the Trans-Pecos region of western Texas.
Nations: MX,US
States/Provinces: CA, MXBCN, TX
Plot Analysis Summary:
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Confidence Level: Low
Confidence Level Comments: No Data Available
Grank: GNR
Greasons: No Data Available
| Type | Name | Database Code | Classification Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class | 2 Shrub & Herb Vegetation Class | C02 | 2 |
| Subclass | 2.C Shrub & Herb Wetland Subclass | S44 | 2.C |
| Formation | 2.C.5 Salt Marsh Formation | F035 | 2.C.5 |
| Division | 2.C.5.Nd North American Western Interior Brackish Marsh, Playa & Shrubland Division | D036 | 2.C.5.Nd |
| Macrogroup | 2.C.5.Nd.1 Warm & Cool Desert Alkali-Saline Marsh, Playa & Shrubland Macrogroup | M082 | 2.C.5.Nd.1 |
| Group | 2.C.5.Nd.1.b Greasewood - Saltbush species Alkaline-Saline Wet Scrub Group | G537 | 2.C.5.Nd.1.b |
| Alliance | A3879 Verrucose Sea-purslane Desert Salt Mudflat Scrub Alliance | A3879 | 2.C.5.Nd.1.b |
| Association | CEGL004595 Verrucose Sea-purslane Sparse Vegetation | CEGL004595 | 2.C.5.Nd.1.b |
Concept Lineage: A.1865 (in part). This alliance includes Old Alliance VII.C.2.N.c. Sesuvium verrucosum Temporarily Flooded Sparsely Vegetated Alliance (A.1865).
Predecessors: No Data Available
Obsolete Names: No Data Available
Obsolete Parents: No Data Available
Synonomy: > Allenrolfea occidentalis (Iodine bush scrub) Alliance (Sawyer et al. 2009) [36.120.00]
> Allenrolfea occidentalis Alliance (Iodine bush scrub) (Buck-Diaz et al. 2012)
> Sesuvium verrucosum (Western sea-purslane marshes) Alliance (Sawyer et al. 2009) [52.210.00]
> Sesuvium verrucosum Alliance (Western sea-purslane marshes) (Buck-Diaz et al. 2012)
> Allenrolfea occidentalis Alliance (Iodine bush scrub) (Buck-Diaz et al. 2012)
> Sesuvium verrucosum (Western sea-purslane marshes) Alliance (Sawyer et al. 2009) [52.210.00]
> Sesuvium verrucosum Alliance (Western sea-purslane marshes) (Buck-Diaz et al. 2012)
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