41.1312 - Medio-European woodruff and hairy sedge beech forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Fagus sylvatica forests of sub-Atlantic Western and Central Europe, north to Denmark, southern Norway, southern Sweden and Poland, developed on a more or less deep layer of brown loess-loam, less rich in calciphile plants and richer in acid- and drought-tolerant species; Melica uniflora (in northern formations) and Galium odoratum are usually well represented.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Galio odorati-Fagetum (Melico-Fagetum p., Asperulo-Fagetum, Cardamino bulbiferae-Fagetum), Carici pilosae-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)

Moravec & al., 1982; Noirfalise, 1984; Matuszkiewicz, 1984: 112; Nordiska ministerradet, 1984: unit 2.2.1.2; Ellenberg, 1988; Oberdorfer, 1992b, 1994; Wallnöfer & al., 1993; Påhlsson, 1994: unit 2.2.2.2; Moravec, 1998a.