34.632 - Mediterranean feathergrass steppes

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Meso- and thermo-Mediterranean formations of North Africa, Spain, Italy, southern France, Greece, the southern Balkans and western Asia, dominated by tall perennial grasses of genera Stipa (Stipa lagascae, Stipa offneri i.a.) or Piptatherum (Oryzopsis), other than the very tall Stipa tenacissima or Stipa gigantea.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Centaureo-Stipetum lagascae, Inulo-Oryzopsidetum milliaceae, Oryzopsidetum miliaceae i.a.

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Rechinger, 1951; Braun-Blanquet and Bolos, 1954; Molinier, 1957; Delvosalle and Duvigneaud, 1962; Polunin and Smythies, 1973; Zohary, 1973; Costa, 1973, 1974; Horvat & al., 1974: 143; Rivas-Martinez, 1975c, 1977a; Peinado Lorca & al., 1984; Brullo, 1985; Polunin and Walters, 1985; Le Houérou, 1986; Peinado Lorca and Rivas-Martinez, 1987; Asensi Marfil and Diez Garretas, 1987; Martinez Parras and Peinado Lorca, 1987; Alcaraz Ariza and Peinado Lorca, 1987; Aparicio Martinez and Silvestre Domingo, 1987; Martinez Parras & al., 1987; Walter and Breckle, 1991c.