9150 - Hêtraies calcicoles médio-européennes du Cephalanthero-Fagion

Medio-European limestone beech forests of the Cephalanthero-Fagion

Liste hiérarchisée et descriptifs des Habitats d'Intérêt Communautaire (HIC) de la directive "Habitats-Faune-Flore"

Définition EUR 28

Xero-thermophile Fagus sylvatica forests developed on calcareous, often superficial, soils, usually of steep slopes, of the medio-European and Atlantic domaines of Western Europe and of central and northern Central Europe, with a generally abundant herb and shrub undergrowth, characterized by sedges (Carex digitata, Carex flacca, Carex montana, Carex alba), grasses (Sesleria albicans, Brachypodium pinnatum), orchids (Cephalanthera spp., Neottia nidus-avis, Epipactis leptochila, Epipactis microphylla) and thermophile species, transgressive of the Quercetalia pubescenti- petraeae. The bush-layer includes several calcicolous species (Ligustrum vulgare, Berberis vulgaris) and Buxus sempervirens can dominate.
Sub-types :
41.161 - Middle European dry-slope limestone beech forests
Middle European sedge and orchid beech woods of slopes with reduced water availability.
41.162 - North-western Iberian xerophile beech woods
Fagus sylvatica forests of relatively low precipitation zones of the southern ranges of the Pais Vasco and of superficially dry calcareous soils of the Cordillera Cantabrica, with Brachypodium pinnatum ssp. rupestre, Sesleria argentea ssp. hispanica, Carex brevicollis, Carex ornithopoda, Carex sempervirens, Carex caudata, Cephalanthera damasonium, C. longifolia, Epipactis helleborine, Epipactis microphylla, Neottia nidus-avis.

Espèces caractéristiques

Plants: Fagus sylvatica, Carex digitata, C. flacca, C. montana, C. alba, Sesleria albicans, Brachypodium pinnatum, Cephalanthera spp., Neottia nidus-avis, Epipactis leptochila, Epipactis microphylla, Buxus sempervirens.

Correspondances avec la classification du Paléarctique

41.16

Correspondances avec d'autres classifications

Nordic classification: ‘2223 Fagus sylvatica-Mercurialis perennis-Allium ursinum -typ'.
Romanian classification ‘R4111 Pãduri sud-est carpatice de fag (Fagus sylvatica) si brad (Abies alba) cu Cephalanthera damassonium ‘

Bibliographie

 Conseil de l'Union européenne, 2013. Directive 2013/17/UE du Conseil du 13 mai 2013 portant adaptation de certaines directives dans le domaine de l'environnement, du fait de l'adhésion de la République de Croatie. Annexes. Partie B Protection de la nature. Journal officiel de l'Union européenne, L 158 du 10/06/2013, p. : 195-203. (Source)

 European Commission, 2013. Interpretation manual of European Union habitats. EUR 28. European Commission, DG Environment, 144 p. (Source)