Silicicolous montane pine and juniper woods and related scrub of continental Hellas, Cyprus, Anatolia and Lebanon
Berberido creticae-Juniperion foetidissimae S. Brullo et al. 2001
Berberido creticae-Juniperion foetidissimae S. Brullo et al. 2001
sab12 | Brullo et al. (2001b) included here those coniferous forests considered as an eastern geographic analogon of the 'Berberidion aetnensis' (recte: Berberido aetnensis-Pinion laricionis, see above). Although most of the relevés in the diagnosis of the type association (Sorbo orbiculatae-Juniperetum foetidissimae Barbero et Quézel ex Brullo et al. 2001) are dominated by Pinus nigra subsp. pallasiana (cover category 4 or 5 in the Braun-Blanquet sampling scale), the name can nevertheless be considered as validly published because its type relevé is dominated more by Juniperus foetidissima and Sorbus umbellata var. orbiculata (both cover category 4) rather than by Pinus nigra subsp. pallasiana (cover category 2). (J.-P. Theurillat).