Western Caucasian submediterranean thermophilous Pinus brutia forests on calcareous substrates
Campanulo sibiricae-Pinion brutiae Litvinskaya et Postarnak ex Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016
Campanulo sibiricae-Pinion brutiae Litvinskaya et Postarnak ex Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016
pub04 | This unit was described under name ‘Campanulo longistylae-Pinion pithyusae’ by Litvinskaya & Postarnak (2002). Formally (missing ‘typus’ expressis verbis) all three associations (Campanulo longistylae-Pinetum pithyusae, ‘Epymedio colchici-Pinetum pithyusae’ and Trachymeno orientalis-Quercetum iberici) were invalidly published. The Epimedio colchici-Pinetum pithyusae has been selected as the ‘nomenklaturni tip’ (= nomenclature type in Russian) of the Campanulo longistylae-Pinion pithyusae, however again the authors failed to introduce the nomenclature type as ‘typus’ expressis verbis. It is therefore I validate the description of the Epimedio colchici-Pinetum pithyusae by re-assigning the relevé on page 256 in Litvinskaya & Postarnak (2001) as the holotypus hoc loco of the association and assign this validly described association (Epimedio colchici-Pinetum pithyusae Litvinskaya et Postarnak ex Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016) as the holotypus (hoc loco) of the Campanulo sibiricae-Pinion brutiae Litvinskaya et Postarnak ex Mucina all. nov. hoc loco. (Campanula longistyla Fomin is synonymous with C. sibirica L., and Pinus pithyusa Steven is synonymous with P. halepensis subsp. brutia (Ten.) Holmboe) The relationship of these relict warm-temperate (submediterranean) P. brutia forests (from calcareus substrates at low-altitudes in the northwestern parts of the Transcaucasian Colchis region) and the true mediterranean P. brutia forest (see Pinetalia halepensis) will be handled elsewhere. (L. Mucina).