54.56 - Peat sedge swards

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Transition mire communities of the Palaearctic domaine dominated by Carex heleonastes, often associated with Meesea triquetra, forming short to medium-tall swards, of local distribution in transition mires and in bog hollows of peri-Alpine and northern European areas.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Caricetum heleonastae

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)

Dierssen, 1978: 418; Matuszkiewicz, 1984: 92; Oberdorfer, 1990: 37; Korotkov & al., 1991: 263; Pott, 1992: 178; Oberdorfer, 1992a: 233; Lekavicius, 1992: 267-268; Julve, 1993: 72.