54.531 - Acidocline bottle sedge quaking mires

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Transition mire communities of boreal and western nemoral regions of the Palaearctic domaine constituted by mats of acidophilous sphagna with a usually low, open growth of Carex rostrata, accompanied by Carex nigra, Carex canescens, Carex limosa, Vaccinium oxycoccos; the main sphagna are Sphagnum recurvum, Sphagnum angustifolium, Sphagnum auriculatum, Sphagnum flexuosum, Sphagnum riparium, Sphagnum obtusum, Sphagnum dusenii.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Sphagno-Caricetum rostratae (Carici rostrati-Sphagnetum apiculati, Carici rostrati-Drepanocladetum fluitantis)

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Duvigneaud, 1949: 92-93; Westhoff and den Held, 1975: 209-210; Ratcliffe, 1980: unit H3c; Moravec & al., 1983: 44; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: units 3.6.2.1, 3.6.2.1a, 3.6.2.1b, 3.6.2.2, 3.6.2.2a, 3.6.2.2b; Rodwell, 1991b: units M4, M5, [p.]; Coldea, 1991: 424-428; Påhlsson, 1994: units 3.2.4.1, 3.2.4.1a, 3.2.4.1b, 3.3.3.1, 3.3.3.1a, 3.3.3.1b.