54.591 - Boreo-nemoral bog bean and marsh cinquefoil rafts

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Pioneering floating carpets of the boreal Palaearctic and of the nemoral Atlantic, sub-Atlantic and sub-Continental Palaearctic, constituted by Menyanthes trifoliata, Potentilla palustris (Comarum palustre), Hydrocotyle vulgaris, often with Equisetum fluviatile, Carex rostrata, Cicuta virosa, sphagna such as Sphagnum fallax, Sphagnum majus, Sphagnum riparium, Sphagnum squarrosum, or brown mosses, in particular, Drepanocladus exannulatus, forming, in mire systems and the terrestrialization zone at the edge of watercourses and waterbodies, a transition between aquatic or amphibious communities and mire communites. Initial stages have Potamogeton polygonifolius or Potamogeton coloratus, late stages, Carex nigra, Juncus acutiflorus, Molinia caerulea.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Cicution virosae: Comaretum palustris, Menyanthetum trifoliatae, i.a.

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)

Parent, 1973: 34; Mäemets, 1974: 50; Brasseur & al., 1978: 43-45; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: unit 3.6.2.3 [p.]; Diaz Gonzalez and Fernandez Prieto, 1987: 106; Korotkov & al., 1991: 35-36; Rodwell, 1991b: unit M9 [p.]; Pott, 1992: 178; Steiner, 1993: 95; Julve, 1993: 71; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 3.3.3.3 [p.].