32.33 - Tall cistus maquis

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Meso-, thermo- and occasionally supra-Mediterranean maquis of Iberia, southern France and western Mediterranean North Africa, in which the tall, large-flowered Cistus ladanifer is prominent. Included are more or less dense, homogeneous fields of Cistus ladanifer, which can be identified by addition of digit 1 in the fourth decimal place of any of the subdivisions below, and more varied formations dominated by tall clumps of Cistus ladanifer, which can be identified by addition of digit 2 in the fourth decimal place of these subdivisions.

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)

Quézel and Santa, 1963; Loisel, 1971; Rivas-Martinez, 1979; Quézel, 1981b; Peinado Lorca and Rivas-Martinez, 1987.