41.162 - Northwestern Iberian xerophile beech woods

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Fagus sylvatica forests of relatively low precipitation zones of the southern ranges of the Pais Vasco and of superficially dry calcareous soils of the Cordillera Cantabrica, with Brachypodium pinnatum ssp. rupestre, Sesleria argentea ssp. hispanica, Carex brevicollis, Carex ornithopoda, Carex sempervirens, Carex caudata, Cephalanthera damasonium, Cephalanthera longifolia, Epipactis helleborine, Epipactis microphylla, Neottia nidus-avis.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Epipactido helleborine-Fagetum

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)

Tüxen and Oberdorfer, 1958; Ozenda & al., 1979; Ozenda, 1979; Noirfalise, 1987; Loidi Arregui, 1987: 61; Diaz Gonzalez and Fernandez Prieto, 1987: 102-104; Navarro Andres and Valle Gutierrez, 1987: 136.