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WESTERN
HEMISPHERE
SMITH, A. C. and I. M. JOHNSTON
19 45 "A phytogeographical sketch of Latin America," in Verdoorn,
Frans, Plants and plant science in Latin America. Waltham, Mass.,
Chronica Botánica, vol. 16, p. 12.
1953 "THE AMERICAS, NATURAL VEGETATION"
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LEGEND
A. Humid forest
1. Coniferous
2. Mixed coniferous-deciduous
3. Temperate deciduous
4. Temperate deciduous-grasslands transition
5. Tropical lowland rain forest
6. Amazon alluvial flood plain (várzea)
7. Semideciduous broadleaf forest
8. Tropical mountain forest
9. Mixed savanna, semideciduous forest and rain forest
10. Mixed semideciduous forest and desert scrub
11. Mangrove
B. Grasslands
12. Temperate grasslands, prairie
13. Temperate grasslands-desert scrub transition
14. Tropical grasslands, savanna (shrub-palm [Venezuela, Brazil, Central
America]; pine-palm [Caribbean area]; swamp-mangrove savanna
[Guiana coast])
15. Swamp-palm savanna
16. Savanna with palm forest (northeast Brazil)
C. Desert scrub and scrub forest
17. Semi-desert scrub and grasses
18. Extreme desert
19. Scrub forest (pinon-juniper [S. W. United States and northern Mexico];
scrub trees, grasses, quebracho [Gran Chaco]; caatinga, palms, dyewoods,
balsam, nut-bearing plants [N. E. Brazil])
20. Patagonian scrub steppe
21. Semi-desert broadleaf evergreens (Mediterranean)
22. Fog vegetation (coast of Peru)
D. Alpine flora
23. Páramo (depressed shrubs, perennial and annual herbs [moist])
24. Puna (bunch grasses, annual and perennial herbs, shrubs [dry])
25. Tola heath puna
26. Undifferentiated flora
E. Arctic flora
27. Tundra (dwarf shrubs, lichens and mosses, marsh grass sedge)
ANONYMOUS
1953 The Americas. [Separately published.] Inset. New York,
The American Geographical Society.
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1960 "THE FORESTS OF LATIN AMERICA'
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