32.21 - Thermo-Mediterranean brushes, thickets and heath-garrigues

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Lentisc-dominated or lentisc-rich brushes and related formations with Olea europaea var. sylvestris, Pistacia lentiscus, Rhamnus alaternus, Rhamnus lycioides ssp. lycioides, Rhamnus lycioides ssp. oleoides, Rhamnus lycioides ssp. velutinus, Rhamnus lycioides ssp. graecus, Myrtus communis, Rubia peregrina, Rubia tenuifolia, Thymus capitatus, Prasium majus, Asparagus stipularis, Asparagus acutifolius, Asparagus albus, Asparagus aphyllus, Cneorum tricoccon, Daphne gnidium, Phillyrea angustifolia, Phillyrea latifolia, Osyris quadripartita, Osyris alba, Bupleurum fruticosum, Bupleurum gibraltarium, Ephedra fragilis, Chamaerops humilis, various oaks (Quercus ilex, Quercus rotundifolia, Quercus suber, Quercus coccifera, Quercus fruticosa), Sarcopoterium spinosum, Calicotome villosa, Calicotome spinosa, widespread in the thermo-Mediterranean zone of the Iberian peninsula (except the arid Iberian Southeast: unit 32.25), of the Balearics, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily, of continental France and Italy, of peninsular and archipelagic Greece, of Mediterranean Anatolia and the Levant, of North Africa. A few extremely distinctive habitats formed by facies of these formations, distributed throughout large portions of their range, are separated under units 32.22, 32.23 and 32.24. Other characteristic habitats are listed below as subdivisions of unit 32.21.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Oleo-Ceratonion, Asparago-Rhamnion, Ceratonio-Rhamnion, Juniperion lyciae p., Rhamno-Quercion cocciferae p.

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)

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