18.2215 - Toscano-Cyrno-Sardian sea-cliff communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Aerohaline communities of the cliffs and rocky shores of Sardinia, Corsica, the Toscan archipelago and Mte. Argentario, in an area of very high endemism of sea-cliff colonisers, in particular, of genus Limonium, with Limonium hermaeum, Limonium lausianum, Limonium dictyocladum, Limonium articulatum, Limonium dolcheri, Limonium tibulatium, Limonium acutifolium, Limonium obtusifolium, Limonium nymphaeum, Limonium tenuifolium, Limonium herculis, Limonium planesiae, Limonium savianum, Limonium gorgonae, Limonium multiformae, Limonium argentarium, Limonium sommierianum, Limonium trojae, Limonium dianum, Limonium ilvae, Limonium divaricatum, Limonium racemosum, Limonium dictyocladum, Limonium virgatum var. majus, Limonium lausianum.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Crithmo-Limonietalia: Crithmo-Limonion: Crithmo maritimi-Limonietum articulati (Crithmo-Limonietum dictyocladi), Crithmo maritimi-Limonietum obtusifolii, Armerio soleirolii-Seseletum praecoci, Asterisco-Helichrysetum microphylli, Crithmo-Limonietum remotispiculi i.a.

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)

Pignatti, 1982: 302-319; Géhu and Géhu-Franck, 1984a: 58-59; Gamisans, 1991: 78-88; Conti & al., 1992: 315, 316; Julve, 1993: 44-45; Pignatti, 1993: 388-389.