36.414 - Violet fescue swards and related communities

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Closed grasslands of the subalpine and lower alpine levels of the Alps, the Pyrenees and the Apennines dominated by Festuca violacea or Festuca nigrescens and Trifolium thalii, developed on deep, often superficially slightly acidified, soils.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Caricion ferrugineae p.; Primulion intricatae p.

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)

Braun-Blanquet, 1954, 1969a; Sutter, 1967; Berset, 1969; Ellenberg, 1963, 1988; Gruber, 1978; Ozenda, 1981, 1985; Barbero & al., 1982; Vigo and Ninot, 1987; Julve, 1993: 56.