Low-altitude thermophilous juniper scrub on calcareous substrates of Western and Central Europe
Brachypodio pinnati-Juniperion communis Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016
Brachypodio pinnati-Juniperion communis Mucina in Mucina et al. 2016
rha15 | Passarge (1978: 176) described this alliance invalidly as ‘Carici-Juniperion all. nov. prov.’) and classified here only one association – the ‘Koelerio-Juniperetum communis (Kaiser 1926) Rausch. 1968’. He has failed, however, to refer either to Kaiser (1926) or to Rauschert (1968). (‘Rauchert 1968’ is in fact Rauchert 1969 – an unpublished thesis.) Therefore the alliance name in Passarge (1978) should be considered a nomen nudum. The ‘Koelerio-Juniperetum communis’ of Passarge (l.c.) obviously refers to the Kaiser's (1926: 170, Tab. 202) ‘Grasreiches Wacholdergebüsch, Juniperus communis-Brachypodium pinnatum (Festuca ovina, Sesleria coerulea)-A.’ Choosing Kaiser's association as the typus of the ‘Carici-Juniperion’ would not be appropriate since there is no Carex species occurring in the relevés of the Tab. 202. Therefore I choose to coin a new name for this alliance – the Brachypodio pinnati-Juniperion communis. Juniperus communis, Brachypodium pinnatum, Koeleria macrantha and Fragaria viridis are considered diagnostic species of the alliance. The Koelerio-Juniperetum communis Rauschert in Rauschert, Hilbig et Klotz 1990 (Rauschert et al. 1990: 232–233, Tab. 13) becomes the holotypus (hoc loco) of the alliance. (L. Mucina).