Biodiversity of Hordeion leporini in Portugal: a phytosociological and edaphic ...

• Author(s): CANO-ORTIZ, Ana ; PINTO-GOMES, Carlos ; ESTEBAN, F.J. ; RODRIGUEZ-TORRES, A. ; GONI, J. ; de la HAZA, I. ; CANO CARMONA, E.
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/6855
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): Association; Edaphic parameters; Biodiversity; grasslands
• Document Type: Article
• Language: Portuguese

Description

This study reveals the occurrence of Phalaris coerulescens communities both in Portugal and the south of Andalusia (Spain). These grasslands present a variable cover ratio and have an average dominant vegetation size of about 100 cm. They tend to occur in river beds and in places which are sometimes water-logged, with a certain amount of organic matter inducing the occurrence of nitrophilous companion species. The soils are always siliceous, very poor in carbonates, but with a high proportion of sand. Consequently, flooding never lasts for long. The grasslands of Portugal are located in the Marianic-Monchiquensean unit, within the series of Pyro bourgaeanae-Queceto rotundifoliae s. and Poterio agrimonioidis-Querceto suberis s. The new Senecio foliosi-Phalaridetum coerulescentis is characterized by Senecio jacobaea var foliosus, meanwhile, in the the south of Andalusia, the Hedysaro coronarii-Phalaridetum coerulescentis is described for the Aljibic and Gaditan-Onubensean Sectors, and, in the Rondean and Bermejensean areas, the Elymo repentis-Phalaridetum coerulescentis. These associations are included in the Gaudinio fragilis-Hordeion bulbosi alliance.