Relict summit graminoid tundra in the alpine and subnival belts of the nemoral mountain ranges of the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Carpathians, the Apennines and the Balkans
Festucetalia versicoloris Jeník in Moravec et al. 1995
(syntax.syn.)
Kobresietalia myosuroidis Oberd. 1957 nom. mut. propos.
(3b, mut.superfl.)
– kob05 Rivas-Martínez et al. (2002a: 265) published the formal proposal serving this name change. This proposal is irrelevant since the newest systematic studies in Carex (Global Carex Group 2015) show that Kobresia and Carex form a monophyletic group. (L. Mucina, J.-P. Theurillat).