54.32 - Alpine riverine curved sedge swards

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Rare pioneer communities of the edges of glacier-fed streams and moraines of the subalpine and alpine levels of the central Alps, dominated by Carex maritima (Carex juncifolia, Carex incurva), with Carex bicolor, Carex atrofusca, Juncus arcticus.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Caricetum maritimae (Caricetum incurvae, Caricetum juncifoliae)

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)

Braun-Blanquet, 1954: 32; Braun-Blanquet & al., 1964b: 36-38; Dierssen, 1978: 419; Oberdorfer, 1990: 38; Oberdorfer, 1992a: 263; Pott, 1992: 187.