Aegean and Marmarean hemisphaeric-scrub coastal phygana on stabilised coastal hind dunes
Helichryso barrelieri-Centaureion spinosae Mucina et Dimopoulos in Mucina et al. 2016
Helichryso barrelieri-Centaureion spinosae Mucina et Dimopoulos in Mucina et al. 2016
cru08 | The Helichryso barrelieri-Centaureion spinosae is herein formally described to accommodate the hemisphaeric- scrub Centaurea spinosa-dominated communities on stabilised coastal hind dunes; these represent a characteristic type of coastal dune phrygana in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Centaurea spinosa is an important floristic element of at least three vegetation classes, the Crithmo-Staticetea, Ammophiletea and Cisto-Micromerietea (Mayer 1995). However, the alliance described represents yet another vegetation type (co-)dominated by Centaurea spinosa and Sarcopoterium spinosum occurring on stabilized hind dunes, a typical habitat of the Helichryso-Crucianelletea maritimae. We assign the Thymbro capitatae-Centaureetum spinosae (the original erroneous spelling: ‘Timbro capitatae-Centaureetum spinosae’) of Géhu (1991: 35, Tab. 2) as the holotypus (hoc loco) of the Helichryso barrelieri-Centaurion spinosae, and list Anthyllis hermanniae, Centaurea spinosa, Cichorium spinosum, Helichrysum stoechas subsp. barrelieri, Linum strictum subsp. spicatum and Silene colorata as the diagnostic taxa of the new alliance. (L. Mucina, P. Dimopoulos).