HalocnemumM. Bieb. vegetation in the Mediterranean Basin

Aridity level, rainfall pattern and soil features as key factors in germination strategies in salt-affected plant communities

“…According to the bioclimatic classification (Rivas-Martínez, 2008), El Hondo (Spain) has a Mediterranean xeric-oceanic climate, with a mean annual temperature of 18 C and an average annual precipitation of 286 mm (ThermoMediterranean semiarid). Whereas, Sacca di Bellocchio (Italy) has a Biondi et al (2013), with a mean annual temperature of 13.7 C and a mean annual rainfall of 584.2 mm (Mesotemperate upper dry). For soil aspects, the success of seed germination and seedling establishment in arid conditions is a result of soil moisture, depending on the characteristics of permeability, evaporation rate and suction (Hillel, 2012).…”

“…M. Bieb. (Biondi et al, 2013). Furthermore, a new species, Halocnemum yurdakulolii (Yaprak and Kadereit, 2008), was described in Turkey.…”

Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 4

“…Habitat and Ecology: Xerohalophyte (hyper-halophyte), growing on the margins of coastal and inland thermophilic salt marshes, on soils with high salt concentrations of the Frankenio corymbosae-Halocnemetum cruciati association (Biondi et al 2013).…”

Checklist of the vascular plants collected during the 12th “Iter Mediterraneum” in Tunisia, 24 March – 4 April 2014

“…More recently, Biondi & al. (2013Biondi & al. ( , 2014 have demonstrated that two clearly separable species indeed exist, differing in morphology (including seed microcharacters) as well as ecology, but that only the S Mediterranean plants (from Spain, Sardinia, Sicily, S Anatolia, Cyprus and the whole of N Africa) belong to H. cruciatum, whereas those of peninsular Italy, Greece and Turkey-in-Europe remain in H. …”

“…(2009), Ferchichi-Ben Jamaa & al. (2010, Domina & Jaouadi (2013), Biondi & al. (2013), El Mokni & al.…”