15.1131 - Low-shore Mediterranean glasswort swards

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Glasswort swards occupying long-inundated basins of coastal saltmarshes of the western Mediterranean basin, including those of Spain, southern continental France, the Gulf of Tarento, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily, with Atlantic representatives in southwestern Europe, between southern Brittany and central Portugal, dominated by the reddening tetraploid glasswort Salicornia emerici.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Salicornion emerici p.: Arthrocnemo glauci-Salicornietum emerici, Puccinellio maritimae-Salicornietum emerici

Bibliography

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)

Géhu, 1984a: unit 22.1.3.1 [p.]; Géhu and Rivas-Martinez, 1984: 35, 37; Géhu, 1984b: 126; Géhu, 1984c: 134-136, 140; Géhu and Géhu-Franck, 1984a: 53; Géhu & al., 1984b; LahondŠre, 1985: 102-105; Géhu, 1986: 184; Alcaraz Ariza and Peinado Lorca, 1987: 275; Costa, 1987: 293; Gamisans, 1991: 104; Julve, 1993: 40; Lorenzoni & al., 1993: 127, 134; LahondŠre, 1994: 31-44.