32.24 - Palmetto brush

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Chamaerops humilis-dominated formations; other thermo-Mediterranean brushes or garrigues rich in the physiognomically important palmetto can be identified by a combination of this code and that of the other appropriate subdivision of unit 32.2. Palmetto brushes are best represented in the coastal areas of southwestern, southern and eastern Iberia, the Balearics, Sicily and its satellite islands and Mediterranean North Africa, with more sporadic occurrences in the Guadalquivir basin, Sardinia, and the Tyrrhenian coasts and islands of peninsular Italy. They are apparently extinct in the wild in the Maltese Islands.

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)

Quézel and Santa, 1962; Fenaroli, 1970; Knapp, 1973: 485; Ozenda & al., 1979; Reisigl & al., 1980; Tomaselli, 1981a, 1981b; Chiappini, 1985b; Noirfalise, 1986; Lanfranco, 1989: 45.