| Concept URI | http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/F3.24732 |
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| Preferred label | Thracian christ's thorn scrub |
| Definition | [Paliurus spina-christi] thickets and scrub of the rim and hills of the Northern Thracian plain (East Rumelian plain) of eastern and southeastern Bulgaria, remnants of flower-rich bushy steppe communities of specific Thracian character, harbouring species of both sub-Mediterranean and Ponto-Pannonic or Central Eurasian affinities, including [Jasminum fruticans], [Prunus tenella] ([Amygdalus nana]), [Paeonia peregrina] ([Paeonia decora]), [Paeonia tenuifolia], [Tulipa aureolinea], [Tulipa urumoffii], [Adonis vernalis], [Adonis flammea], [Adonis aestivalis], [Ranunculus illyricus], [Salvia nutans], [Verbascum phoeniceum], [Milium vernale], [Scandix australis], [Phlomis herba-venti ssp. pungens] ([Phlomis pungens]), [Phlomis tuberosa], which still covered vast expanses at the beginning of the century but which may now be largely extinct in their most developed form. |
| Notation | F3.24732 |
| Status | Valid |
| Status Modified | 2014-01-31 |
| Accepted Date | 2014-01-31 |
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