Saline vegetation on heavy clayey soils of badlands of the Apennines, the Balkans and Crimea
Halo-Agropyretalia Ferrari et Speranza 1975
Halo-Agropyretalia Ferrari et Speranza 1975
fep05 | This rare and enigmatic vegetation type is associated with exposed and fast-eroding Miocene clayey deposits forming badland landscapes, known in Italy as 'calanchi'. Usually they occur in a complex with remnants of the Mediterranean relict tardiglacial steppes of the Lygeo-Stipetea. This vegetation occurs also in Hellas (for instance in Cephalonia; L. Mucina unpubl. data). We suggest that a new alliance could be coined to accommodate this vegetation in the Eastern Mediterranean. (L. Mucina).