Alliance PB02A (OXY-02A)

Oxycocco microcarpi-Empetrion hermaphroditi Nordhagen ex Du Rietz 1954

Dwarf-shrub and peat-moss bog hummock vegetation in the boreal and arctic Europe and the Central European mountains

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Accepted name

Oxycocco microcarpi-Empetrion hermaphroditi Nordhagen ex Du Rietz 1954 nom. conserv. propos.

EuroVegChecklist name (Mucina et al. 2016)

Oxycocco microcarpi-Empetrion hermaphroditi Nordhagen ex Du Rietz 1954 nom. conserv. propos.

Remarks

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oxy03 | I propose to conserve this name against the Sphagnion fusci Br.-Bl. 1949. The latter alliance is automatically typified by the Sphagnetum fusci Luquet 1926 (ICPN art. 20) that represents undoubtedly the same vegetation as the Oxycocco-Empetrion hermaphroditi Nordhagen ex Du Rietz 1954. However Braun-Blanquet (1949c) explicitly stated that he considered the Sphagnion fusci to be vicarious to the 'Oxycocco-Empetrion hermaphroditi Nordhagen 1936' and listed character species of the alliance that are rather indicative of the Sphagnion magellanici Kästner et Flössner 1933. Consequently, the interpretation of the concept of this alliance became ambiguous and some authors considered it to be a synonym of the Sphagnion magellanici (e.g., Steiner 1992) despite the fact that its type would exclude such an interpretation. On the contrary, the name Oxycocco-Empetrion hermaphroditi Nordhagen ex Du Rietz 1954 has usually been applied unequivocally in many recent vegetation surveys in Europe. (M. Hájek).

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