Alliance PA03B (SCH-03B)

Caricion fuscae Koch 1926

Sedge-moss vegetation moderately to low calcium-rich slightly acidic fens dominated by calcifuge brown-mosses or nutrient-demanding peat-mosses of Europe

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Accepted name

Caricion fuscae Koch 1926 nom. conserv. propos.

EuroVegChecklist name (Mucina et al. 2016)

Caricion fuscae Koch 1926 nom. conserv. propos.

Remarks

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sch19 | Hájek & Hájková in Chytrý (2011: 619, 662) argued for rejecting the name Caricion fuscae Koch 1926 as nomen ambiguum, because the relevés presented in the original diagnosis feature the Caricion davallianae communities, and the name Caricion fuscae was never used for this type of vegetation. In all subsequent studies, the Caricion fuscae was used either for moderately rich or poor fens or both. The Caricion fuscae was typified in Rivas-Martínez et al. (2011) by choosing the Caricetum nigrae J. Braun 1915 as the typus. This typification is superfluous because the alliance is automatically typified by the Caricetum fuscae (ICPN art. 20). Koch (1926) did not publish a diagnosis of this association, but referred to older descriptions of the Caricetum fuscae in the text. However, none of these descriptions represents the Caricion fuscae in the current sense. Therefore we propose to conserve the name Caricion fuscae Koch 1926 with a conserved type − in order to use this well established name for moderate to lowly calcium-rich slightly acidic fens dominated by calcifuge brown-mosses or nutrient-demanding peat-mosses of Europe. (M. Hájek, L. Mucina, J.-P. Theurillat, W. Willner).

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