Southern Hellenic montane hedgehog-heaths

General Information Species Legal instrument Natura

Common name:

Habitat code:

F7.481

Description:

Hedgehog-heath facies of mostly secondary grassland-scrubland communities replacing [Abies cephalonica] forests in the 1500-1800 m altitudinal range of Peloponnese mountains, in particular, Taygetos, Parnon and Kyllini, and of southern mainland Greek mountains, including the southern Pindus and the Thessalian mountains, composed of [Stipa pulcherrima] and [Morina persica], with bushes and cushion-shaped perennials including [Astragalus angustifolius], [Daphne oleoides], [Juniperus hemisphaerica], [Berberis cretica], [Anthemis montana], [Ribes austro-europaeum], [Prunus cocomilia].

References:

Devillers, P., Devillers-Terschuren, J. and Vander Linden, C., 2001

Important species scientific name	Corresponding species comments
Circaetus gallicus (Gmelin, 1788)
Lullula arborea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Abies cephalonica Loudon, 1838	Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising
Juniperus communis hemisphaerica (Presl, 1822) Nyman, 1881	Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising
Anthemis cretica ssp. cretica Linnaeus, 1753	Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising
Berberis cretica Linnaeus, 1753	Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising
Morina persica Linnaeus, 1753	Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising
Astragalus angustifolius Lam., 1783	Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising
Ribes austro-europaeum (Bornmüller, 1928) Bech., 1929	Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising
Prunus cocomilia Ten., 1811	Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising
Daphne oleoides Schreber, 1766	Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising
Stipa pulcherrima (Koch, 1848) Freitag, 1985	Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising
Sylvia rueppelli Temminck, 1823
Vipera ammodytes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Parnassius apollo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rupicapra rupicapra (Linnaeus, 1758)
Zamenis situla (Linnaeus, 1758)
Testudo marginata Schoepff, 1792
Testudo hermanni Gmelin, 1789
Podarcis tauricus (Pallas, 1814)
Podarcis peloponnesiacus (Bibron & Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1833)
Podarcis muralis (Laurenti, 1768)
Lacerta trilineata Bedriaga, 1886
Elaphe quatuorlineata (Lacepède 1789)
Malpolon insignitus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)

Code in legal instrument
Legal instrument	Habitat type legal name	Habitat type legal code
EC Fauna, Flora, Habitats Directive	Endemic oro-Mediterranean heaths with gorse	4090

Sites in which this biotope type has been recorded
EUNIS Site Code	Greek Natura 2000 code	Site name
A00060092	GR2520006	OROS PARNONAS (KAI PERIOCHI MALEVIS)
A00060083	GR2550006	OROS TAYGETOS
A00060014	GR1410002	AGRAFA
A00040050	GR2530001	KORYFES OROUS KYLLINI (ZIRIA) KAI CHARADRA FLAMBOURITSA