Várzea forest
Seasonal floodplain forest inundated by whitewater rivers in the Amazon biome / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A várzea forest is a seasonal floodplain forest inundated by whitewater rivers that occurs in the Amazon biome.[1][2] Until the late 1970s, the definition was less clear and várzea was often used for all periodically flooded Amazonian forests.[3]
Although sometimes described as consisting only of forest, várzea also contains more open, seasonally flooded habitats such as grasslands, including floating meadows.[4][5]