32.218 - Myrtle thickets

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Myrtus communis-dominated brush. Particularly noteworthy formations occur in the Balearics (Clematidi-Myrtetum), in southern Iberia, in Sardinia, in the Aegean, in the eastern Mediterranean coastal regions, in North Africa. Myrtle thickets can in favourable situations reach a height of a few metres, grading into arborescent matorral (unit 32.124).

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)

Holmboe, 1914: 134, 217; Knapp, 1973: 487; Lanfranco, 1989: 24; Turland & al., 1993: 7; Paradis and Piazza, 1993: 243; Viney, 1994: xiii; Hoda & al., 1998: 13.