32.27 - Mediterranean gorse-heaths

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Western Mediterranean formations, for the most part limited to the lower meso-mediterranean and thermo-mediterranean zones of the western Iberian peninsula, with outposts in western Morocco, dominated by gorse (Ulex spp., Stauracanthus spp.) of thermo-Mediterranean affinities, or by the spiny, globular broom Genista hirsuta, accompanied by a cortŠge 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.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Ulici argentei-Cistion ladaniferi p. 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)

Braun-Blanquet & al., 1956; Braun-Blanquet & al., 1964a; Rivas Goday and Rivas-Martinez, 1968; Rivas-Martinez, 1979.