The vegetation of Madeira: III - Diplazio caudati-Perseetum indici ass. nova and Rhamno glandulosi-Sambucetum lanceolati ass. nova: two new hygrophillic forest associations from Madeira Island
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.
