The vegetation of Madeira: III - Diplazio caudati-Perseetum indici ass. nova a...

• Author(s): Capelo, J. ; Costa, José C. ; Jardim, Roberto ; Sequeira, Miguel ; Aguiar, Carlos ; Lousã, Mário
• Date: 2003
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/5336
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Forest vegetation; Madeira Island
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Descriptions of forest vegetation of Madeira Island included, so far, two types of climatophylous broadleaf forest vegetation – Clethro arboreae-Ocoteetum foetentis and Semele androgynae- Apollonietum barbujanae – with an arboreal stratum respectively dominated by two Lauraceae trees: Ocotea foetens [til] and Apollonias barbujana [barbusano]. Recently, we discovered that the other Lauraceae Madeira's tree – Persea indica [vinhático] – is the dominant tree in a third type of broadleaf forest - Diplazio caudati-Perseetum indici ass. nova.