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
SM25: Suaeda vera drift-line community: Elymo pycnanthi-Suaedetum verae (Arènes 1933) Géhu 1975
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2010
- 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
Suaedetum fruticosae Tansley 1939 p.p.; Agropyro-Suaedetum fruticosae Adam 1976; Halimiono-Suaedetum fruticosae Adam 1976.
Constant species
Halimione portulacoides, Suaeda vera.
Rare species
Arthrocnemum perenne, Suaeda vera.
Physiognomy
The Elymo pycnanthi-Suaedetum verae is of variable appearance. The two association constants are sometimes co-dominant as a more or less closed shrubby cover; in other cases they occur as scattered bushes in a grassy ground. The S. vera shoots provide a niche for a varied flora of epiphytic lichens (Ellis 1960).
Sub-communities
Elymus pycnanthus sub-community: Elymo pycnanthi-Suaedetum verae typicum Géhu & Delzenne 1975; Agropyro-Suaedetum fruticosae Adam 1976. Here the cover of H. portulacoides is low and the vegetation is dominated by complementary proportions of S. vera bushes and stiff clumps of Elymus pycnanthus with usually a little Festuca rubra. The upper edge of stands may be marked in spring by a narrow band of winter annuals such as Cochlearia danica, Myosotis ramosissima, Sagina maritima and Valerianella locusta germinating on drift debris.
Halimione portulacoides sub-community: Elymo pycnanthi-Suaedetum verae halimionetosum Géhu & Delzenne 1975; Halimiono-Suaedetum fruticosae Adam 1976. S. vera and H. portulacoides are co-dominant as a shrubby canopy of variable height over a ground of scattered Puccinellia maritima and Limonium cf. vulgare, often with a little Aster tripolium, annual Salicornia spp., Spergularia media and Suaeda maritima. The sub-community provides an occasional high-level context for Bostrychia scorpioides and Pelvetia canaliculata.
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- British Plant Communities , pp. 104 - 106Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000