Pontic continental fescue sandy steppes
Festucion beckeri Vicherek 1972
Festucion beckeri Vicherek 1972
cor07 | Dengler (2003: 202 et seq. and unpubl.) considers the Festucion beckeri to be a Pontic analogon of the northwestern Sarmatian Koelerion glaucae and the Pannonian Festucion vaginatae, with which it shares ecological and physiognomic features as well as many species. The matrix-forming fescues (F. psammophila, F. polesica in the Koelerion glaucae, F. vaginata in the Festucion vaginatae and F. beckeri in the Festucion beckeri are also very closely related). By contrast, the stands of the Festucion beckeri on sand dunes in Southern Ukraine hardly share any species with typical steppes of the Festuco-Brometea on loess sites nearby. (J. Dengler).