54.1221 - Hard water bryophyte springs

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Communities of calcareous springs, flushes, seeps or parts of spring systems of nemoral and boreal Europe overwhelmingly dominated by bryophytes forming carpets, curtains or mounds with no or a modest amount of tufa deposition. Typical dominants are the mosses Cratoneuron filicinum, Cratoneuron commutatum, Cratoneuron commutatum var. falcatum, Cratoneuron decipiens, also the mosses Philonotis calcarea, Paludella squarrosa, Hygrohypnum luridum, or the hepatic Leiocolea bantriensis.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Cratoneurion: Cratoneuretum falcati (Epilobietum alsinifolii, Saxifragetum aizoides; Cratoneuro-Arabidetum bellidifoliae, Juncetum castanei, Cratoneuro-Philonotidetum calcareae), Cratoneuro-Hygrohypnetum luridi

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)

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