42.58 - Southwestern Alpine mesophile Scots pine forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Mesophile montane forests with wintergreens occupying a broad belt on the southwestern flank of the Alps from Dauphin‚ to the Maritime Alps, differentiated from the forests of unit 42.54 by the absence of Erica herbacea; the undergrowh usually comprises Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Centaurea scabiosa, Tolpis staticifolia (Hieracium staticifolium), Calluna vulgaris, Polygala chamaebuxus, Monotropa hypopitys, Goodyera repens, Epipactis atrorubens, Neottia nidus-avis.

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)

Archiloque & al., 1969; Ozenda, 1981, 1985; Noirfalise, 1986, 1987.