Thermomediterranean halo-nitrophilous xeric thorny scrub on loamy soils of the Iberian Peninsula
Lycio europaei-Ipomoeion purpureae O. de Bolòs ex Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016
Lycio europaei-Ipomoeion purpureae O. de Bolòs ex Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016
peg04 | De Bolòs (1988: 31) suggested a new alliance, the Lycio europaei-Ipomoeion purpureae and classified here the Pharbitidi-Lycietum europaei (de Bolòs 1962: 176) as the only association; this association serves then automatically as the holotypus of the alliance. However, as stated by the IPCN art. 8: “from 1/1/1980 the original diagnosis is sufficient only when the character and/or differential species of the syntaxon are also explicitly indicated.” This condition was not met in the protologue of the Lycio europaei-Ipomoeion purpureae. Ninot et al. (2012) have also failed to provide such a list of diagnostic taxa and therefore, I here list Lycium europaeum and Ipomoea purpurea as the diagnostic species of the Lycio europaei-Ipomoeion purpureae, and thus validate the alliance name. (L. Mucina).