42.214 - Xerophile subalpine spruce forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Picea abies forests on dry adrets of the northern and northwestern Alps, with Vaccinium vitis-idaea and a small admixture of Vaccinium myrtillus on siliceous soils over sandstones and carboniferous schists, with Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Polygala chamaebuxus, Carex humilis on lustrous schists, with berberis vulgaris, Valeriana montana, Valeriana tripteris on stabilized calcareous screes.

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)

Ozenda, 1981: 208-209, 210; Richard and Pautou, 1982: 171-172.