Accepted name

Hyperico empetrifolii-Genistetalia acanthocladae Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016

EuroVegChecklist name (Mucina et al. 2016)

Hyperico empetrifolii-Genistetalia acanthocladae Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016

Remarks

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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).

Synonyms

• Poterietalia spinosi-intermediae Zohary et Orshan 1966 (2b, 34a) – ros09 This name is not only illegitimate because of the use of the epithet 'intermediae', an epithet not based on a species name (ICPN 34), but it is also invalid because the protologue of the order 'Poterietalia spinosi intermedia' does not contain any alliance which would accommodate two validly described associations for the order (ICPN art. 8). (L. Mucina).
• Sarcopoterietalia spinoso-intermediae Zohary et Orshan 1966 nom. mut. propos. (2b, mut.superfl.)