37.5 - Mediterranean short humid grasslands

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Very short grasslands of impermeable compact soils or marls, wet for a large part of the year, and dessicated in summer, characteristic of the Mediterranean basin, with irradiations north to the Illyrian zone of the northwestern Balkan peninsula, with Deschampsia media, Centaurium pulchellum, Lotus tenuis, Trifolium lappaceum, Prunella hyssopifolia, Plantago maritima ssp. serpentina, Centaurea timbali.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Holoschoenetalia: Deschampsion mediae; Trifolio-Hordeetalia: Deschampsietum mediae illyricum 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)

Archiloque & al., 1969; Guinochet and Vilmorin, 1973; Horvat & al., 1974: 217-218, 492; Molinier and Martin, 1980; Julve, 1993: 89.