Sea-cliffs, or parts of sea-cliffs, and rocky shores colonized by disjunct assemblages of salt-tolerant crevice plants (chasmophytes) or by more or less closed salt-tolerant grasslands with associated terrestrial invertebrate and vertebrate faunal communities.
Vegetated cliffs and rocky shores of the Mediterranean, of the Black Sea and of the subtropical eastern Atlantic with endemic Limonium spp. and e.g. Silene sedoides, Frankenia hirsuta, Frankenia pulverulenta, Crithmum maritimum, Lotus cytisoides of the Crithmo-Staticetea and the species of the Saginetea: Anthemis rigida, Bellium minutum, Catapodium marinum, Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum, Parapholis incurva, Phleum crypsoides, Phleum exaratum, Plantago weldenii, Psilurus incurvus, Sagina maritima, Sedum litoreum, Valantia muralis.