Basing on literature data and unpublished relevés from Sicily, a survey of the syntaxa belonging to the class Lygeo-Stipetea Rivas-Martínez 1978 is presented. This perennial vegetation is characterized by the dominance of big caespitose hemicryptophytes,and it is widely distributed in Sicily from the sea level up to 1500 m a.s.l. The class is represented in Sicily by two orders, floristicallyand ecologically well differentiated: Lygeo-Stipetalia, including the sole alliance Moricandio-Lygeion exclusively of clayey substrates,and Hyparrhenietalia hirtae, including five alliances (Hyparrhenion hirtae, Avenulo cincinnatae-Ampelodesmion mauritanici,Thero-Brachypodion ramosi, Bromo-Oryzopsion miliaceae, and Arundion collinae) occurring on various substrates. Within the class, 50 associationshave been recognized. To support the syntaxonomic proposal, a multivariate numerical analysis, considering literatureand personal data, has been performed. Nomenclature, floristic settlement, ecology, syndynamism and chorology are examined foreach syntaxon.

The Lygeo-Stipetea Class In Sicily / Brullo, C; Brullo, S; GIUSSO DEL GALDO, G; Guarino, R; Minissale, P; Scuderi, L; Siracusa, G; Sciandrello, S; Spampinato, Giovanni. - In: ANNALI DI BOTANICA. - ISSN 0365-0812. - 1:(2010), pp. 1-28.

The Lygeo-Stipetea Class In Sicily

SPAMPINATO, Giovanni
2010-01-01

Abstract

Basing on literature data and unpublished relevés from Sicily, a survey of the syntaxa belonging to the class Lygeo-Stipetea Rivas-Martínez 1978 is presented. This perennial vegetation is characterized by the dominance of big caespitose hemicryptophytes,and it is widely distributed in Sicily from the sea level up to 1500 m a.s.l. The class is represented in Sicily by two orders, floristicallyand ecologically well differentiated: Lygeo-Stipetalia, including the sole alliance Moricandio-Lygeion exclusively of clayey substrates,and Hyparrhenietalia hirtae, including five alliances (Hyparrhenion hirtae, Avenulo cincinnatae-Ampelodesmion mauritanici,Thero-Brachypodion ramosi, Bromo-Oryzopsion miliaceae, and Arundion collinae) occurring on various substrates. Within the class, 50 associationshave been recognized. To support the syntaxonomic proposal, a multivariate numerical analysis, considering literatureand personal data, has been performed. Nomenclature, floristic settlement, ecology, syndynamism and chorology are examined foreach syntaxon.
2010
DRY GRASSLANDS
PHYTOSOCIOLOGY
LYGEO-STIPETEA
Sicily
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