Mediterranean annual deep-sand communities

Description (English)

Open, spring-blooming communities of annuals developed on deep sands of Iberia, of Mediterranean North Africa and, very locally, of southern France and Italy, with Malcolmia lacera, Malcolmia ramosissima, Anthyllis hamosa, Maresia nana, Erodium laciniatum, Erodium cicutarium ssp. bipinnatum, Arenaria emarginata, Hymenostemma pseudanthemis, Loeflingia baetica, Loeflingia spartea, Loeflingia tavaresiana, Loeflingia hispanica, Linaria donyana, Linaria pedunculata, Vulpia membranacea, Ononis variegata, Ononis baetica, Ononis cossoniana, Ononis subspicata, Coronilla repanda, Evax asterisciflora, Evax lusitanica, Leucojum trichophyllum. Coastal dune equivalents are classified as unit B1.48; while others occur on coastal gravel banks, see units B2.4 and B2.5.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification

Quick facts

EUNIS habitat type code R1R1

Vegetation types

Relation to vegetation types (syntaxa)

Not available

Species mentioned in habitat description

Not available

Other classifications

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type
EUNIS Habitat Classification 2007 (revised descriptions 2012) E1.A1 Mediterranean annual deep-sand communities same
For relation to plant communities (syntaxa), see Vegetation types

History

Classification Code Habitat type name Relationship type Comment
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200410 E1.A1 Mediterranean annual deep-sand communities same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200308 E1.A1 Mediterranean annual deep-sand communities same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 200202 E1.A1 Mediterranean annual deep-sand communities same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199910 E1.A1 Mediterranean annual deep-sand communities same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199811 E1.82 Mediterranean annual deep-sand communities same
EUNIS Habitat Classification 199712 E1.24 Mediterranean annual deep-sand communities same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 199905 35.4 Mediterranean annual deep-sand communities same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1997 35.4 Mediterranean annual deep-sand communities same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1996 35.4   same
Palaearctic Habitat Classification 1993 35.4   same
CORINE Biotopes Classification 1991 35.4   same
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