Vegetated saline land of Mediterranean coastal regions and of the fringes of semiarid salt basins that lack drainage to the sea; often dominated by perennial, rosette-forming Limonium spp. or esparto grass, Lygeum spartum. The soils are temporarily permeated (though not inundated) by saline water and subject to extreme summer drying, with formation of salt efflorescences.
Mediterranean salt steppes dominated by rosette-forming species of Limonium and with the presence of Inula crithmoides, Elymus elongatus ssp. ponticus, Elymus flaccidifolius, Centaurium tenuiflorum, Polypogon maritimus, Polypogon monspeliensis, Psilurus incurvus, Centaurium pulchellum, Halimione portulacoides, Parapholis marginata, Plantago crassifolia and Puccinellia festuciformis ssp. convoluta. Aegean and eastern Mediterranean coastal saltmarsh formations of Camphorosma monspeliaca or Petrosimonia.