Thermo-mesomediterranean phrygana of the continental Hellas and the Adriatic and Ionian seaboards
Cisto-Micromerietalia julianae Oberd. 1954
Cisto-Micromerietalia julianae Oberd. 1954
ros06 | Brullo et al. (1997) published the most comprehensive syntaxonomic synthesis of the Eastern Mediterranean phrygana to date. A preliminary numerical-syntaxonomic analysis (L. Mucina, unpubl.) of the material presented in the latter paper suggests, however, a different syntaxonomic scheme: (1) the floristic differentiation between the Cisto-Ericetalia Horvatić 1958 and the Cisto-Micromerietalia julianae Oberd. 1954 was not supported by the data; (2) given similarity shown between the Southern Aegean, Southern Anatolian, Cypriotic and North African phrygana, consideration of combining them into a single order in their own right is warranted, and (3) the latter order was shown as floristically very different from the syntaxonomic concept of the Poterietalia spinosi Eig 1939 (Sarcopoterietalia spinosi Eig 1939 nom. mut. propos.: the proposal of the name change was published by Brullo et al. 1997: 32) and it was obviously premature to use it for the Aegean-Anatolian (as well Cyrenaican) distribution areas of the Cisto-Micromerietea. As Zohary & Orshan (1966: 28) pointed out, the Poterietalia spinosi Eig 1939 is a different unit from that which they described from Crete under the name 'Poterietalia spinosi intermedia'. (L. Mucina).