32.27 - Landes à ajoncs méditerranéens

Mediterranean gorse-heaths

Classification des habitats CORINE biotopes

Descriptif officiel

Western Mediterranean formations, for the most part limited to the lower meso-Mediterranean and thermo-Mediterranean zones of the western Iberian peninsula, dominated by gorse (Ulex spp., Stauracanthus spp.) of thermo-Mediterranean affinities, or by the spiny, globular broom Genista hirsuta, accompanied by a cortège of plants characteristic of the meso- and thermo-Mediterranean cistus maquis (32.33), thermo-Mediterranean brushes (32.21) or, occasionally, meso-Mediterranean garrigues (32.4). Other thermo-Mediterranean gorse formations will be found among the more specialized extreme southern Iberian endemic communities listed under 32.25, 32.28, 32.29, 32.2A, 32.2B and 32.2C.

Description en français

Formations ouest-méditerranéennes, limitées surtout aux étages mésoméditerranéen inférieur et thermo-méditerranéen, dominées par des ajoncs, accompagnés par un cortège de plantes caractéristiques des garrigues méso-méditerranéennes.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Ulici argentei-Cistion ladaniferi p. i.a.

Bibliography

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J., Ledant J.-P. & coll., 1991. CORINE biotopes manual. Habitats of the European Community. Data specifications - Part 2. EUR 12587/3 EN. European Commission, Luxembourg, 300 p. (Source)

Braun-Blanquet, Pinto da Silva and Rozeira, 1956, 1964 ; Rivas Goday and Rivas-Martinez, 1968 ; Rivas-Martinez, 1979.)