Thermo-mesomediterranean phrygana of the southern regions of the Aegean, Crete, Cyprus, the Southern Anatolian seaboards and Cyrenaica
Hyperico empetrifolii-Genistetalia acanthocladae Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016
Hyperico empetrifolii-Genistetalia acanthocladae Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016
ros08 | This vegetation has been previously classified in the Poterietalia spinosi Eig 1939 (see Remark mic02) but it deserves a status of order in its own right. Here we formally describe this order and designate the name Hyperico empetrifolii-Micromerion graecae Barbero et Quézel 1989 as the holotypus (hoc loco; Barbero & Quézel 1989: 44, 58) of the new order. The diagnostic taxa of the Hyperico empetrifolii-Genistetalia acanthocladae are: Anthyllis hermanniae, Asperula pubescens, Carlina tragacanthifolia, Cynara cyrenaica, Euphorbia acanthothamnos, Genista acanthoclada, Helichrysum stoechas subsp. barrelieri, H. sanguineum, Hypericum empetrifolium, Hypericum thymifolium, Lithodora hispidula, Micromeria myrtifolia, Nepeta vivianii, Ononis spinosa subsp. antiquorum, Origanum syriacum, Phlomis floccosa, P. lanata, P. viscosa, Salvia fruticosa, Sarcopoterium spinosum, Scorzonera cretica, Stachys distans, S. tournefortii, Teucrium barbeyanum, T. divaricatum, T. microphyllum and T. micropodioides. (L. Mucina).