Woody Plants of the Northern Yucatan Peninsula

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MORE PLANT INFO

The online Flora of the Yucatán illustrates and describes more and more species as time pases.

You can review a list of some of the plants identified at Dzibilchaltún Ruins just north of Mérida.

In PDF format the Programa de Manejo Reserva de la Biosfera Ría Lagartos is available online. It includes lists of plants (in Latin) and animals.

The 1983 work Flora of Quintana Roo, in Spanish using Latin for the names, is available online.

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Thorn forest occurs in several places in Mexico, not just in the Yucatan. Along the Pacific coast of southern and central Mexico as far south as Acapulco there's a lot, and pockets of it appear in Tamaulipas and Veracruz. Wherever it appears in Mexico, members of the Bean Family, the Leguminoseae, are foremost among the woody plants, and these trees and bushes usually bear spines and/or thorns. The main Bean-Family genera are Acacias, Caesalpinia, Cassia and Mimosa.

SPECIAL PLANT FAMILIES IN YUCATÁN THORNFORESTS:

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