42.411 - Outer Alpine alpenrose mountain pine forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Pinus uncinata forests occupying hard limestone plateaux of the outer Alps, in the Chablais, the Aravis, the Bauges, the Chartreuse, the Vercors, the D‚voluy in which the almost pure calcareous bedrock is covered by a thick layer of raw humus supporting an acidophilous undergrowth dominated by Rhododendron ferrugineum, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Vaccinium uliginosum accompanied by Empetrum hermaphroditum, Lycopodium selago, Selaginella spinosa, Cladonia rangiferina, Homogyne alpina, Bartsia alpina, Astrantia minor.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Rhododendro ferruginei-Pinetum uncinatae

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)