15.63 - Mediterranean Limoniastrum scrubs

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Formations of often large, silver-glaucous shrubs of Limoniastrum monopetalum with showy pink flowers in late spring, of drier parts of Mediterranean and Iberian saltmarshes, distributed locally in North Africa, the Iberian peninsula, the southern Italian peninsula, western Sicily, Lampedusa, Sardinia and Crete.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Arthrocnemetalia fruticosi: Limoniastrion monopetali: Polygono equisetiformis-Limoniastretum monopetali, Limonio lychnidifolii-Limoniastretum monopetali, Artemisio gallicae-Limoniastretum monopetali, Limonio siculi-Limoniastretum monopetali, Limoniastro monopetali-Limonietum auriculiursifolii 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)

Rivas-Martinez & al., 1980: 50-51, 59-60; Pignatti, 1982: III 318; Asensi Marfil and Diez Garretas, 1987: 226; Conti & al., 1992: 295; Julve, 1993: 45.