41.411 - Calcicline ash-sycamore ravine forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Atlantic and medio-European collinar and submontane forests of Fraxinus excelsior, Acer pseudoplatanus, Acer platanoides, Ulmus glabra, Tilia platyphyllos, Fagus sylvatica, on unstable scree or colluvions of abrupt, shady and humid slopes, with a very complete ensemble of typical ravine forest species, including Asplenium scolopendrium, Actaea spicata, Lunaria rediviva, Helleborus viridis, Lamiastrum galeobdolon ssp. montanum, accompanied by calciphile species and particularly by calciphile ferns. They are characteristic of the hills, low mountains and plateaux associated with the Hercynian ranges, the Jura, the Northern Carpathians, the Alps, the hills of the Pannonic plain, within the range of the Fagion medio-europaeum.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Lunario-Acerenion pseudoplatani: Fraxino-Aceretum pseudoplatani s.l.: Fraxino-Aceretum pseudoplatani s.s. (Scolopendrio-Fraxinetum, Phyllitido-Fraxinetum, "Tilio-Aceretum"), Lunario-Aceretum pseudoplatani, Corydalido cavae-Aceretum pseudoplatani, Arunco-Aceretum

Bibliography

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)

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