Chaste tree thickets
Common name:
Chaste tree thickets
Habitat code:
F9.312
Description:
[Vitex agnus-castus] formations of temporary water courses and other humid sites within, mostly, the thermo-Mediterranean zone. They occur, though uncommonly, in Mediterranean southern and eastern Spain and in the Balearics; they are local and rare in eastern Provence, the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy, Puglia, the gulf of Taranto, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and the Maltese Islands. They are frequent in Greece, particularly along the Ionian coasts, where they can constitute dense thickets, uncommon again in the Aegean archipelagoes and Crete. They extend to the southern Balkans, Crimea, Mediterranean Asia Minor, Anatolia and North Africa, including the northern Saharan regions.
Important species scientific name | Corresponding species comments |
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Vitex agnus-castus Linnaeus, 1753 | Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising |
Chalicodoma (Pseudomegachile) derasa (Gerstaecker, 1869) | |
Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Phylloscopus collybita (Vieillot, 1817) | |
Aphis viticis Ferrari, 1872 | |
Hyla arborea (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Elaphe quatuorlineata (Lacepède 1789) | |
Merops apiaster Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Testudo graeca Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Testudo hermanni Gmelin, 1789 | |
Zamenis situla (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Legal instrument | Habitat type legal name | Habitat type legal code |
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EC Fauna, Flora, Habitats Directive | Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae) | 92D0 |
EUNIS Site Code | Source | Greek Natura 2000 code | Site name |
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A00050028 | GR4330001 | PETRE FARAGGI KAI PETRES OS PARALIA ZOURIDA | |
A00030067 | GR4210006 | RODOS: PROFITIS ILIAS - EPTA PIGES - PETALOUDES | |
GR4340005 | GR4340005 | SOUGIA - BARDIA - FARANGI LISSOU MECHRI ANDROUS |