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Plants
Over 1,500 higher plants (flora) have been identified in the Iwokrama Forest. Most of the Iwokrama Forest comprises a mixture of forest types, with approximately twelve types classified and with no particular species dominating. Rather, there are changes in the relative abundance of essentially the same suite of canopy species which commonly includes the commercial species.
A wide variety of plant life can be found in the Forest and neighbouring lands. Approximately 75% of the area in the north of the reserve can be described as Tropical Moist Forest and 25% in the south as Tropical Dry Forest.
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Vegetation on mountains and hills in the region do not reach sufficient elevation, given the latitude, to be classified as tropical montane or cloud forests, though geology, steep slopes, mesa-like summits and thin soils have created conditions better suited to low-statured, epiphytic, xerophytic and rheophytic plants that characterize these formations. |
Photo courtesy of Jake Bicknell
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Smithsonian Institution's "Biological Diversity of the Guianas" web site: Iwokrama Plant Species List.
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