Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Salt-marsh communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- SM1: Zostera communities: Zosterion Christiansen 1934
- SM2: Ruppia maritima salt-marsh community: Ruppietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM3: Eleocharis parvula salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum parvulae (Preuss 1911/12) Gillner 1960
- SM4: Spartina maritima salt-marsh community: Spartinetum maritimae (Emb. & Regn. 1926) Corillion 1953
- SM5: Spartina alterniflora salt-marsh community: Spartinetum alterniflorae Corillion 1953
- SM6: Spartina anglica salt-marsh community: Spartinetum townsendii (Tansley 1939) Corillion 1953
- SM7: Arthrocnemum perenne stands
- SM8: Annual Salicornia salt-marsh community: Salicornietum europaeae Warming 1906
- SM9: Suaeda maritima salt-marsh community: Suaedetum maritimae (Conrad 1935) Pignatti 1953
- SM10: Transitional low-marsh vegetation with Puccinellia maritima, annual: Salicornia species and Suaeda maritima
- SM11: Aster tripolium var. discoideus salt-marsh community: Asteretum tripolii Tansley 1939
- SM12: Rayed Aster tripolium on salt-marshes
- SM13: Puccinellia maritima salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum maritimae (Warming 1906) Christiansen 1927
- SM14: Halimione portulacoides salt-marsh community: Halimionetum portulacoidis (Kuhnholtz-Lordat 1927) Des Abbayes & Corillion 1949
- SM15: Juncus maritimus-Triglochin maritima salt-marsh community
- SM16: Festuca rubra salt-marsh community: Juncetum gerardi Warming 1906
- SM17: Artemisia maritima salt-marsh community: Artemisietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM18: Juncus maritimus salt-marsh community
- SM19: Blysmus rufus salt-marsh community: Blysmetum rufi (G. E. & G. Du Rietz 1925) Gillner 1960
- SM20: Eleocharis uniglumis salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum uniglumis Nordhagen 1923
- SM21: Suaeda vera-Limonium binervosum salt-marsh community
- SM22: Halimione portulacoides-Frankenia laevis salt-marsh community: Limonio vulgaris-Frankenietum laevis Géhu & Géhu-Franck 1975
- SM23: Spergularia marina-Puccinellia distans salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum distantis Feekes (1934) 1945
- SM24: Elymus pycnanthus salt-marsh community: Atriplici-Elymetum pycnanthi Beeftink & Westhoff 1962
- SM25: Suaeda vera drift-line community: Elymo pycnanthi-Suaedetum verae (Arènes 1933) Géhu 1975
- SM26: Inula crithmoides on salt-marshes
- SM27: Ephemeral salt-marsh vegetation with Sagina maritima: Saginion maritimae Westhoff, van Leeuwen & Adriani 1962
- SM28: Elymus repens salt-marsh community: Elymetum repentis maritimum Nordhagen 1940
- Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Maritime cliff communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Vegetation of open habitats
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- INDEX OF SYNONYMS TO MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- INDEX OF SPECIES IN MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF BRITISH PLANT COMMUNITIES
SM23: Spergularia marina-Puccinellia distans salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum distantis Feekes (1934) 1945
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Salt-marsh communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- SM1: Zostera communities: Zosterion Christiansen 1934
- SM2: Ruppia maritima salt-marsh community: Ruppietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM3: Eleocharis parvula salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum parvulae (Preuss 1911/12) Gillner 1960
- SM4: Spartina maritima salt-marsh community: Spartinetum maritimae (Emb. & Regn. 1926) Corillion 1953
- SM5: Spartina alterniflora salt-marsh community: Spartinetum alterniflorae Corillion 1953
- SM6: Spartina anglica salt-marsh community: Spartinetum townsendii (Tansley 1939) Corillion 1953
- SM7: Arthrocnemum perenne stands
- SM8: Annual Salicornia salt-marsh community: Salicornietum europaeae Warming 1906
- SM9: Suaeda maritima salt-marsh community: Suaedetum maritimae (Conrad 1935) Pignatti 1953
- SM10: Transitional low-marsh vegetation with Puccinellia maritima, annual: Salicornia species and Suaeda maritima
- SM11: Aster tripolium var. discoideus salt-marsh community: Asteretum tripolii Tansley 1939
- SM12: Rayed Aster tripolium on salt-marshes
- SM13: Puccinellia maritima salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum maritimae (Warming 1906) Christiansen 1927
- SM14: Halimione portulacoides salt-marsh community: Halimionetum portulacoidis (Kuhnholtz-Lordat 1927) Des Abbayes & Corillion 1949
- SM15: Juncus maritimus-Triglochin maritima salt-marsh community
- SM16: Festuca rubra salt-marsh community: Juncetum gerardi Warming 1906
- SM17: Artemisia maritima salt-marsh community: Artemisietum maritimae Hocquette 1927
- SM18: Juncus maritimus salt-marsh community
- SM19: Blysmus rufus salt-marsh community: Blysmetum rufi (G. E. & G. Du Rietz 1925) Gillner 1960
- SM20: Eleocharis uniglumis salt-marsh community: Eleocharitetum uniglumis Nordhagen 1923
- SM21: Suaeda vera-Limonium binervosum salt-marsh community
- SM22: Halimione portulacoides-Frankenia laevis salt-marsh community: Limonio vulgaris-Frankenietum laevis Géhu & Géhu-Franck 1975
- SM23: Spergularia marina-Puccinellia distans salt-marsh community: Puccinellietum distantis Feekes (1934) 1945
- SM24: Elymus pycnanthus salt-marsh community: Atriplici-Elymetum pycnanthi Beeftink & Westhoff 1962
- SM25: Suaeda vera drift-line community: Elymo pycnanthi-Suaedetum verae (Arènes 1933) Géhu 1975
- SM26: Inula crithmoides on salt-marshes
- SM27: Ephemeral salt-marsh vegetation with Sagina maritima: Saginion maritimae Westhoff, van Leeuwen & Adriani 1962
- SM28: Elymus repens salt-marsh community: Elymetum repentis maritimum Nordhagen 1940
- Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Maritime cliff communities
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- Vegetation of open habitats
- COMMUNITY DESCRIPTIONS
- INDEX OF SYNONYMS TO MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- INDEX OF SPECIES IN MARITIME COMMUNITIES AND VEGETATION OF OPEN HABITATS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF BRITISH PLANT COMMUNITIES
Summary
Synonymy
Sperguletum marinae Tyler 1969.
Constant species
Spergularia marina, Puccinellia distans, P. maritima.
Physiognomy
The Puccinellietum distantis is a generally open association of scattered but often abundant individuals of Spergularia marina, Puccinellia distans and P. maritima with rather variable amounts of Agrostis stolonifera and sparse records for a variety of salt-marsh species (especially in coastal sites) and ruderal glycophytes. An algal mat is sometimes conspicuous in coastal stands but bryophytes are always rare.
Sub-communities
Sampling of coastal stands of the association has been insufficient to detect the existence of well-defined subcommunities but individual stands bear some resemblance to the Puccinellietum distantis polygonetosum R. Tx. 1956 emend. Beeftink 1962 (with Polygonum aviculare) and the Puccinellietum distantis pholiuretosum (with Parapholis strigosa) described from The Netherlands (Beeftink 1962, 1965, 1977a). Lee (1977) encountered inland stands similar to the ‘initial’ (with Atriplex hastata) and ‘degraded’ (without A. hastata and Spergularia marina) sub-associations recognised on Polish coastal marshes (Piotrowski 1974) and to the Puccinellietum distantis juncetosum Westhoff 1947 (with Juncus ambiguus Guss.) described from the Netherlands (Beeftink 1962). Lee's (1977) asteretosum is probably best considered in relation to the Aster tripolium communities of salt-marshes and brackish habitats. Further sampling is necessary to establish the validity of these sub-divisions in Britain.
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- British Plant Communities , pp. 99 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000