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Concept: Medio-European wood barley beech forests in the eunishabitats vocabulary

Concept URI http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/eunishabitats/G1.6311
Preferred label Medio-European wood barley beech forests
Definition Slightly moist [Fagus sylvatica] forests developed over calcareous bedrock on stony, neutral or weakly acid rendzina or similar humus-carbonate soils, with [Galium odoratum], [Melica uniflora], [Mercurialis perennis], [Lathyrus vernus], [Asarum europaeum], [Hordelymus europaeus], [Epipactis helleborine], [Epipactis leptochila], [Neottia nidus-avis], [Circaea lutetiana], [Viola reichenbachiana], distributed locally on the hills, low mountains and plateaux of the Hercynian arc and its peripheral regions, from the Ardenne-Eifel to Moravia, and north to Denmark and southern Sweden, in the entire Jura catena, in Lorraine and the eastern Paris basin, in Burgundy, in the Bavarian Alpine piedmont, the Vorarlberg limestone Alps, the Wienerwald. They include the Central European [Fagus]-[Mercurialis perennis] forests, as well as occasional stands exceptionally rich in spring-flowering geophytes, sometimes known as wild garlic-rich beech woods.
Notation G1.6311
Status Valid
Status Modified 2014-01-31
Accepted Date 2014-01-31
Not Accepted Date
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