37.3115 - Thermophile calcicline purple moorgrass meadows

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Species-rich humid grasslands of oligotrophic calcareous or calcicline soils of southern France and northwestern Iberia dominated by, or rich in, Molinia caerulea, with a species cortŠge that includes, in addition to typical Molinion species, such as Succisa pratensis and Stachys officinalis, a number of thermo-Atlantic or Mediterraneo-Atlantic species, among which Centaurea nigra var. radiata, Serapias cordigera.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Molinion caeruleae p. ("Eu-Molinion"): Centaureo radiatae-Molinietum , Dorycno gracilis-Molinietum caeruleae, 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)

Tüxen and Oberdorfer, 1958: 136-139; Julve, 1993: 73-74.