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Submediterranean deciduous thickets and brushes

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Common name:
Submediterranean deciduous thickets and brushes
Habitat code:
F3.2
Description:

Successional and plagioclimax scrub, mostly deciduous, of the submediterranean and supramediterranean zones, but also colonizing cool, moist or disturbed stations of the mediterranean evergreen forest zone.

References:
Hill, M.O., Moss, D. & Davies, C.E., 2004
Important species scientific name Corresponding species comments
Gypsophila papillosa Porta, 1905 Annex II species - habitat relation; source Unit of Vegetation Science, Lancaster, 2000
Jankaea heldreichii (Boiss.) Boiss., 1875 Annex II species - habitat relation; source Unit of Vegetation Science, Lancaster, 2000
Dracocephalum austriacum Linnaeus, 1753 Annex II species - habitat relation; source Unit of Vegetation Science, Lancaster, 2000
Galanthus nivalis Linnaeus, 1735 Annex II species - habitat relation; source Unit of Vegetation Science, Lancaster, 2000
Ruscus aculeatus Linnaeus, 1753 Annex II species - habitat relation; source Unit of Vegetation Science, Lancaster, 2000
Fritillaria gussichiae (Degen & Dörfl.) Rix, 1845 Annex II species - habitat relation; source Unit of Vegetation Science, Lancaster, 2000
Cypripedium calceolus Linnaeus, 1753 Annex II species - habitat relation; source Unit of Vegetation Science, Lancaster, 2000
Code in legal instrument
Legal instrument Habitat type legal name Habitat type legal code
EU Habitats Directive Annex I Mountain Cytisus purgans formations 5120
Next sub-divisions
EUNIS Code Type Name Name
F3.27 [Genista aetnensis] stands [Genista aetnensis] stands
F3.28 Canary Island broom fields Canary Island broom fields
F3.29 Moesian broom fields Moesian broom fields
F3.25 Piornales Piornales
F3.26 Tyrrhenian broom fields Tyrrhenian broom fields
F3.21 Montane fields of Pyrenean broom ([Cytisus purgans]) Montane [Cytisus purgans] fields
F3.22 Southwestern sub-mediterranean deciduous thickets Southwestern sub-mediterranean deciduous thickets
F3.23 Tyrrhenian sub-mediterranean deciduous thickets Tyrrhenian sub-mediterranean deciduous thickets
F3.24 Subcontinental and continental deciduous thickets Subcontinental and continental deciduous thickets