15.11331 - Upper shore Mediterranean glasswort swards

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Glasswort (Salicornia spp.) swards occupying muds of coastal saltmarshes of the Mediterranean Sea, including both western and eastern basins, and of the Atlantic, from central Portugal to 27øN, dominated by diploid glassworts, in particular, by the reddening Salicornia patula, also by Salicornia ramosissima and probably other diplo‹d taxa of the Salicornia europaea aggregate, limited in the western Mediterranean basin to firmer, drier muds than those colonized by the tetraploid Salicornia emerici.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Salicornion patulae: Suaedo vulgaris-Salicornietum patulae, Suaedo splendentis-Salicornietum ramosissimae 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)

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