34.36 - Phoenician torgrass swards

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Closed, dry perennial grasslands of eutrophic soils within the meso- and thermomediterranean zones of the western Mediterranean basin, often on post-cultural land, formed by relatively tall grasses and usually dominated by Brachypodium phoenicoides, with, among many others, Phleum bertolonii (Phleum nodosum, Phleum pratense), Elymus repens, Carex divisa, Carthamus lanatus, Diplotaxis viminea, Echinops ritro, Euphorbia serrata, Echium vulgare, Echium pustulatum, Erodium acaule, Galactites tomentosa, Lepidium graminifolium, Medicago orbicularis, Salvia verbenaca, Foeniculum vulgare, Pallenis spinosa, Psoralea bituminosa, Seseli tortuosum, Tragopogon australis, Scabiosa atropurpurea, Verbascum sinuatum, Picris hieracioides, Calamintha nepeta, Centaurea aspera, Vicia hybrida, Phlomis herba-venti and many orchids.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Festuco-Brometea: Brachypodietalia phoenicoidis

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)

Molinier, 1957; Archiloque & al., 1969; Guinochet and Vilmorin, 1973; Rivas-Martinez, 1977a; Bellot Rodriguez, 1979; Molinier and Martin, 1980; Devaux & al., 1983; Duvigneaud, 1985; Martinez Parras and Peinado Lorca, 1987; Costa, 1987; Aparicio Martinez and Silvestre Domingo, 1987; Martinez Parras & al., 1987.