51.1115 - Sphagnum imbricatum hummocks

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Often tall, large, dense hummocks of European bogs formed by the large, orange-gold Sphagnum imbricatum, limited to undisturbed bogs in areas of strong maritime influence, in particular, in the British Isles, southwestern Sweden, Hercynian Belgium, northwestern Germany, formerly common, today rare and increasingly so.

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)

Duvigneaud, 1949: 115; Lebrun & al., 1949: unit 118; Vanden Berghen, 1951a: 172; Sjörs, 1983: 81; Bellamy, 1986: 42-43; Ellenberg, 1988: 338; Daniels and Eddy, 1990: 28, 57; Rodwell, 1991b: unit M18 [p.], 184; Drachenfels, 1994: unit 6.1.5 [p.].