44.531 - Collinar Corsican alder galleries

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Upper meso- and lower supra-Mediterranean alder galleries of Corsica developed along torrential streams in the 10-800 m altitudinal range dominated by Alnus glutinosa and Alnus cordata in association, sometimes by either one alone, with Ostrya carpinifolia, Fraxinus ornus, Hypericum hircinum, Erica terminalis, Eupatorium cannabinum ssp. corsicum, Mentha suaveolens ssp. insularis, Borago pygmaea, Arum italicum, Carex remota, Carex microcarpa, Carex pendula, Festuca arundinacea ssp. corsica, Brachypodium sylvaticum, Athyrium filix-femina, Pteris cretica.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Hyperico hircini-Alnenion (Caricion microcarpae): Hyperico-Alnetum glutinosae

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)

Yon and Tendron, 1981; Gamisans, 1985; Gamisans, 1991: 337-340.