54.424 - Pyrenean black sedge acidic fens

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Carex acidic fens of the Pyrenees, mostly dominated by Carex nigra, with Carex echinata or Carex panicea, very similar to those of the Alps, in particular to the floristically rather impoverished southwestern Alpine communities, sometimes dominated by Carex rostrata, with Carex canescens (Carex curta) or Carex echinata and Agrostis canina.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Caricetum fuscae p.

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)

Duvigneaud, 1949: 94; Gruber, 1978; Vanden Berghen and Peeters, 1982: 186-187; Dupias, 1985: 161; Vigo and Ninot, 1987: 382.