54.2D - Alpine deer-sedge alkaline fens

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Meso-eutrophic fen communities dominated by Scirpus hudsonianus (Trichophorum alpinum), with Drepanocladus revolvens, Scorpidium spp., Chrysohypnum stellatum, recorded from Scandinavia, from Germano-Baltic moraine land, from the subalpine and alpine levels of the Alps and the greater Hercynian ranges. They may constitute a Scirpus hudsonianus facies of the yellow-dioecious sedge fens of unit 54.253.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Trichophoretum alpini, Chrysohypno-Trichophoretum alpini, Pinguiculo vulgaris-Trichophoretum alpini

Bibliographie

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)

Duvigneaud, 1949: 100; Rybnicek, 1970: 231-233; Jenik & al., 1980: 16; Ellenberg, 1988: 319; Oberdorfer, 1990: 38; Pott, 1992: 185-186; Oberdorfer, 1992a: 261; Steiner, 1993: 148.