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HACQUETIA 14/2 • 2015, 277-288
DOI: 10.1515/hacq-2015-0004
nomenclature adjustments and new syntaxa of the arctic, alpine and oro-mediterranean vegetation
Milan CHYTRY^*, Fred J. A. DANIELS2, Romeo DI PIETRO^, Natalia koroleva^, Ladislav MUCINA^
Abstract
During preparation of the European checklist of vegetation units (EuroVegChecklist), it became clear that some earlier described syntaxa need to be typified in order to stabilize nomenclature and some new syntaxa need to be described. Here we propose nomenclature adjustments and formal description of four new alliances for the Arctic, alpine and oro-Mediterranean vegetation of Europe, Greenland and Anatolia. First, we typify the class Juncetea trifidi. Second, we describe four new alliances, such as the Puccinellion nuttallianae (Low-Arctic salt steppes of Greenland; class Saxifrago tricuspidatae-Calamagrostieteapurpurascentis), Dryado octo-petalae-Caricion arctisibiricae (Arctic tundra vegetation of north-eastern European Russia; class Carici rupestris-Kobresietea bellardii), Leontopodio nivalis-Elynion myosuroidis (southern European alpine tundra vegetation; class Carici rupestris-Kobresietea bellardii) and Lagotido uralensis-Caricion ensifoliae (alpine tundra vegetation of the Southern Ural Mountains; class Juncetea trifidi). Two new associations are described within the first two of these alliances. Finally, we present an interpretation of the alliance Muscario-Scillion nivalis. Keywords: alpine grasslands, Anatolia, Europe, EuroVegChecklist, Greenland, International Code of Phyto-sociological Nomenclature (ICPN), syntaxonomy, tundra.
Izvleček
Med pripravo evropskega seznama vegetacijskih enot (EuroVegChecklist) je postalo jasno, da je potrebno za utrditev nomenklature nekatere zgodnejše opise sintaksonov veljavno tipizirati oziroma opisati nove sintakso-ne. V članku predlagamo nomenklaturne popravke in formalne opise štirih novih zvez za arktično, alpinsko in oro-mediteransko vegetacijo Evrope, Grenlandije in Anatolije. Najprej smo tipifizirali razred Juncetea trifidi. Kot drugo smo opisali štiri nove zveze: Puccinellion nuttallianae (nizke arktične slane stepe Grenlandije; razred Saxifrago tricuspidatae-Calamagrostietea purpurascentis), Dryado octopetalae-Caricion arctisibiricae (vegetacija arktične tundre severovzhodne evropske Rusije; razred Carici rupestris-Kobresietea bellardii), Leontopodio nivalis-Elynion myosuroidis (vegetacija južno-evropske alpinske tundre; razred Carici rupestris-Kobresietea bellardii) in Lagotido uralensis-Caricion ensifoliae (vegetacija alpinske tundre gorovja južnega Urala; razred Juncetea trifidi). V teh zvezah smo opisali dve novi asociaciji. Na koncu predstavljamo interpretacijo zveze Muscario-Scillion nivalis. Ključne besede: alpinska travišča, Anatolija, Grenlandija, Mednarodni kodeks fitocenološke nomenklature (ICPN), sintaksonomija, tundra.
1	Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic. E-mail: chytry@sci.muni.cz
2	Institute of Biology and Biotechnology of Plants, Schlossplatz 8, D-48143 Münster, Germany. E-mail: daniels@uni-muenster.de
3	Department of Planning, Design and Technology of Architecture, Section Environment and Landscape, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Flaminia 72, I-00196 Rome, Italy. E-mail: romeo.dipietro@uniroma1.it
4	Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute of the Kola Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kirovsk, Murmansk Province, Russia. E-mail: flora012011@yandex.ru
5	Iluka Chair in Vegetation Science and Biogeography, School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Perth, Australia; Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa. E-mail: Laco.Mucina@uwa.edu.au Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
* Corresponding author
Nomenclature: Vascular plants: Euro+Med PlantBase (www.emplantbase.org, accessed on 14 Sep 2014); The Plant List (www.theplantlist.org, accessed on 14 Sep 2014) for species not included in the Euro+Med PlantBase; Egorova (1999) for subspecies of Carex bigelowii; Conti et al. (2005) for subspecies of Androsace vitaliana. Mosses: Hill et al. (2006). Lichens: Santesson et al. (2004).
1. INTRODUCTION
During the preparation of the publication 'Vegetation of Europe: Hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities' (Mucina et al. submitted; hereafter referred to as 'EuroVegChecklist'), thousands of published syntaxonomical concepts of European phytosociological classes, orders and alliances were assessed. Syntaxonomic names related to these concepts were checked, especially whether they comply with the rules of the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (Weber et al. 2000; ICPN hereafter). In many cases, these revisions revealed a need for formal description of new vegetation units, nomenclature changes or adjustments, or stabilization of the currently used names by typification. In order to separate these technical nomenclatural issues from the EuroVegChecklist itself, we have embarked on publishing a series of papers complementing the EuroVegChecklist by formally describing new syntaxa, providing nomenclature adjustments and discussing the contentious syntaxonomic concepts.
This paper, focusing on Arctic, alpine and oro-Mediterranean vegetation is one of the series. It aims to (1) contribute to stabilization of syn-taxonomic nomenclature by typification of the originally broadly-conceived class of Juncetea tri-fidi, (2) formally describe four new alliances accepted in the EuroVegChecklist, and (3) clarify the syntaxonomic position of a problematic alliance reported from the Balkans and Anatolia.
2. JUnCEtEA TRIFIDI: TYPIFICATION OF AN OLD BUT SOMETIMES WRONGLY REJECTED CLASS NAME
(by Milan Chytrf)
In the original diagnosis of the class Juncetea trifidi Hadač in Klika et Hadač 1944 (Juncetea trifidi Hadač 1944'), Klika & Hadač (1944: 281-
283) included four orders, all validly described by Braun-Blanquet (in Braun-Blanquet & Jenny 1926), such as the 'Androsacetalia alpinae Br.-Bl. 1926', 'Salicetalia herbaceae Br.-Bl. 1926', 'Carice-talia curvulae Br.-Bl. 1926' and Rhodoreto-Vacci-nietalia Br.-Bl. 1926'. Grabherr (1993: 343-344) considered the class name Juncetea trifidi Hadač in Klika et Hadač 1944 as a nomen nudum according to Art. 2b of ICPN, and also as a nomen ambiguum because of the broad delimitation of this class presented by Klika & Hadač (1944). Therefore Grabherr (1993) included the alpine grasslands on acidic bedrock in the class Carice-tea curvulae Br.-Bl. 1948. Similarly, Mucina (1997) and Dubravcova & Jarol^mek (2007) assumed that the name Juncetea trifidi Hadač in Klika et Hadač 1944 lacked a sufficient original diagnosis. Consequently Mucina (1997) used a younger name Juncetea trifidi Hadač 1946 for this class, and Dubravcova & Jarol^mek (2007) used the name Caricetea curvulae Br.-Bl. 1948, considering the Juncetea trifidi Hadač 1946 being also a nomen ambiguum.
Here we argue that the name Juncetea trifidi Hadač in Klika et Hadač 1944 is not a nomen nudum. Although Klika & Hadač (1944) included only few recent papers in the list of references, these authors indicated in the introductory Czech text (p. 249) that their survey of syntaxa expands on an earlier survey published in the book Praktikum rostlinne sociologie, pudoznalstvi, klimatologie a ekologie (Klika & Novak 1941): '"It is clear that some unification is needed, and our overview aims at it. It is a follow up of the corresponding part of the 'Praktikum rostlinne sociologie, pudoznalstvi, klimatologie a ekologie'. Praha, Melantrich 1941. To save space, we refer to it in some parts. For higher units we indicate a list of diagnostic species of classes, orders and alliances. These, along with a brief ecological characterization, enable distinguishing particular units." (translated from Czech). Further (on p. 257) they referred again to this book and to Volume 4 of Bibliographia Phytosociologica (Tüxen et al. 1943) for the list of references to the author citations of syntaxa: ""Papers arefound in a corresponding list of references in the 'Praktikum...', papers from the for-
mer Polish Carpathians and Slovakia are listed in Bi-bliographia Phytosociologica Fasc. 4. 'Germania Pars IL' Hannovera 1943, which contains a list of literature related to the Sudeten lands, Slovakia, former Poland andformer Carpathian Ruthenia." (translated from Czech). Therefore, several class names were published validly by Klika & Hadač (1944) by using an indirect reference to an earlier original diagnosis according to Art. 2b of ICPN. This interpretation of the new names published in Klika & Hadač (1944) was also accepted, for example, by Michl et al. (2010: 147). original diagnoses of the orders included in the original diagnosis of the class name Juncetea trifidi Hadač in Klika et Hadač 1944 and containing the name-giving species Juncus trifidus are also referred to indirectly through the Praktikum (Klika & Novak 1941), which contains the reference to 'Braun-Blanquet (1926)'. Although in most cases this paper is referred to as 'Braun-Blanquet & Jenny (1926)', it can be also referred to as 'Braun-Blanquet (1926)' because the author statement (in German) on the title page of the paper reads: J. Braun-Blanquet unter Mitwirkung von Hans Jenny' ('J. Braun-Blan-quet with collaboration of Hans Jenny'). Otherwise, as the title of the paper, the series and the volume number in which it is published are correctly cited (except for 'neue Denksschr. ...' instead of 'Denkschr.'), this bibliographic reference is unambiguous in the sense of the Art. 2b of ICPN.
The Juncetea trifidi Hadač in Klika et Hadač 1944 is also not a nomen ambiguum, in spite of the fact that nowadays the four orders of its original diagnosis are included to four vegetation classes (thlaspietea rotundifolii Br.-Bl. 1948, Salicetea her-baceae Br.-Bl. 1948, Juncetea trifidi Hadač in Klika et Hadač 1944 and Loiseleurio procumbentis-Vac-cinietea Eggler ex Schubert 1960) as recognized by the EuroVegChecklist and most of the current European literature. According to the Art. 36 of ICPN, the reason for proposing a nomen ambiguum status could be its frequent use " in a false sense that excludes its type so that its re-introduction in its original correct sense would be a source of continual errors" (Weber et al. 2000). However, this is not the case here since, to our knowledge, no lecto-type has ever been selected from the four available orders included in the original diagnosis of the class. In nearly all syntaxonomic overviews that used the class name Juncetea trifidi Hadač in Klika et Hadač 1944 (e.g. oberdorfer 1993, Coldea 1997, Malinovsky & Kricsfalusy 2000, Koč^ 2007, Matuszkiewicz 2007) this name was
used for vegetation of alpine grasslands on acidic soils such as those classified within the Cariceta-lia curvulae Br.-Bl. in Br.-Bl. et Jenny 1926, i.e. one of the orders included in the original diagnosis of this class. Rivas-Mart^nez et al. (2002) published a proposal to conserve the name Caricetea curvulae Br.-Bl. 1948 against the name Juncetea trifidi Hadač in Klika et Hadač 1944, but there was no reason for doing so.
In order to stabilize the use of the validly described class name Juncetea trifidi Hadač in Klika et Hadač 1944, we typify it by choosing the order name Caricetalia curvulae Br.-Bl. in Br.-Bl. et Jenny 1926 as its nomenclature type (lectotypus hoc loco designatus).
3. PuCCINELLIoN NurrALLiANAE: A NEW ALLIANCE OF THE ARCTIC SALINE STEPPES
(by Fred J. A. Daniels)
Puccinellion nuttallianae Daniels all. nov. hoc loco
Included concepts: Puccinellia deschampsioides so-ciations of the Puccinellia deschampsioides-Bra-ya linearis Sociation Group in Böcher (1954: Table 24: 1-11, 20-22) Name-giving species: Puccinellia nuttalliana (Schult.) Hitchc. (syn.: Puccinellia deschampsioides T. J. S0rensen)
Nomenclature type (holotypus hoc loco designatus):: Puccinellietum nuttallianae Daniels in Chytry et al. 2015 (this paper, see below) Diagnostic taxa of the alliance: Artemisia cam-pestris subsp. borealis, Braya humilis, B. linearis, Calamagrostis purpurascens, Draba daurica, D. incana, Gentiana detonsa, Lomatogonium ro-tatum, Plantago maritima subsp. borealis, Primula stricta, Puccinellia nuttalliana, Hennediella heimii and Cladonia pyxidata.
This alliance belongs to the class Saxifrago tri-cuspidatae-Calamagrostietea purpurascentis Drees et Daniels 2009 and the order Saxifrago tricus-pidatae-Calamagrostietalia purpurascentis Drees et Daniels 2009. It comprises the Low-Arctic salt-steppe vegetation of xero- and mesophytic grasslands containing (sub)halophilous species. This vegetation occurs on loess or clay deposits accumulated at foot slopes of mountain ridges and on the shores of salt lakes in the continen-
tal Low-Arctic regions of Greenland characterized by very dry and relatively warm summers and very dry and cold winters. The substrates are subjected to extreme fluctuations in soil moisture regime. So far the plant communities of this alliance have mainly been known from the inland of West Greenland (Drees & Daniels 2009). The group of plant communities of the Puccinellion nuttallianae was assigned by Böcher (1954) to the 'Puccinellia deschampsioides-Braya linearis So-ciation Group' within the 'Puccinellia deschamp-sioides-Gentiana detonsa Type' and the 'Artemisia borealis-Calamagrostis purpurascens-Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Vegetation Complex'. This complex comprises the sub-Low Arctic continental xerophytic grasslands, dwarf-shrub vegetation as well as associated willow scrub.
Puccinellietum nuttallianae Daniels ass. nov. hoc loco
Nomenclature type releve (holotypus hoc loco des-ignatus): Böcher (1954: releve 4 in Table 24 of the 'Puccinellia-Cornicularia sociation') Character and dominant species: Puccinellia nut-talliana
Constant taxa: Artemisia campestris subsp. borealis, Puccinellia nuttalliana, Silene taimyrensis, Cephaloziella spp., Caloplaca citrina, Cetraria aculeata, Cladonia pyxidata, Cyanophyceae spp.
Böcher (1954) described the Artemisia borealis-Calamagrostis purpurascens-Arctostaphylos uva-ursi complex from continental south-western Greenland, including three 'types'. One of these is the Puccinellia deschampsioides-Gentiana detonsa Type, comprising two 'sociation groups': the Puccinel-lia deschampsioides-Braya linearis Sociation Group and the Sisyrichium montanum Sociation Group. The former sociation group comprises Puccinellia deschampsioides sociations, Calamagrostis purpu-rascens sociations, Kobresia myosuroides sociations and Dryas integrifolia sociations. Each sociation is distinguished by its floristic composition and species dominance derived from vegetation plots from different sites. In the syntaxonomic classification of the Braun-Blanquet approach, these Böcher's vegetation units could be recognised as associations. The Puccinellia-Cornicularia socia-tion rich in Artemisia borealis is interpreted here as a new association - the Puccinellietum nuttallianae.
4. DRYADO oCToPETALAE-CARICion ARCTISIBIRICAE: A NEW ALLIANCE OF THE ARCTIC TUNDRA
(by Katalia Koroleva)
Dryado octopetalae-Caricion arctisibiricae Koroleva et Kulyugina all. nov. hoc loco Syn.: Carici arctisibiricae-Dryadion octopetalae Koroleva et Kulyugina 2010 prov. (Arts. 2b & 3b) Name-giving taxa: Dryas octopetala L., Carex bi-gelowii subsp. arctisibirica (Jurtz.) Ä. Löve et D. Löve
Nomenclature type (holotypus hoc loco designatus): Dryado octopetalae-Caricetum arctisibiricae Koroleva et Kulyugina in Chytry et al. 2015 (this paper, see below) Diagnostic taxa: Astragalus alpinus subsp. arcticus, Carex bigelowii subsp. arctisibirica, Dryas octopetala, Eritrichium villosum, Pedicularis oederi, Sa-lix reticulata, Saxifraga hieracifolia, S. hirculus, Thalictrum alpinum
This new alliance belongs to the class Carici rupestris-Kobresietea bellardii Ohba 1974 and the order Thymo arctici-Kobresietalia bellardii Ohba 1974. The alliance was proposed by Koroleva & Kulyugina (2010) as a preliminary concept (nomen provisorium) and without an original diagnosis, hence it was invalidly published according to the Arts. 2b and 3b of ICPN. Here we perform the formal validation of this alliance.
The alliance comprises closed-canopy (cover of 70-80%, in places up to 100%) tundra vegetation dominated by Dryas octopetala and Carex bigelowii subsp. arctisibirica with Salix polaris, S. reticulata and mesophytic hypo-Arctic grasses showing high constancy values. The moss layer is well-developed and composed of mesophytic pleurocarpous mosses. This vegetation includes the species-richest plant communities in the subArctic tundra.
The Dryado octopetalae-Caricion arctisibiricae is similar to the Kobresio-Dryadion Nordhagen 1943, which occurs mainly in Svalbard and the Scandinavian mountains. In contrast to the Kobresio-Dryadion, Dryado-Caricion lacks species such as Carex atrata, C. hepburnii, C. misandra and C. rup-estris, and it is of more mesophytic nature because of the co-dominance of Dryas octopetala and Carex bigelowii subsp. arctisibirica and the constant presence of herbs and grasses.
The vegetation of this alliance occurs on small to medium-sized, well-drained, relatively warm and moderately snow-protected hilltops and on south- and west-facing slopes of hills ('musyu-res'). It occupies clayey, sandy and gravelly soils, in some places with frost-boiling patches. It occurs in the southern and typical tundra of north-eastern European Russia, namely in the Malozemel'skaya Tundra, Bol'shezemel'skaya Tundra and in the Pay-Khoy Mountains on the Yugorskyi Peninsula (bioclimatic zones D and C, and partly also E according to the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map; Walker et al. 2005). It is rather rare in the western part of this area (Malozemel'skaya Tundra) and becomes more widely distributed to the east of Bol'shezemel'skaya Tundra and the Pay-Khoy Mountains.
The differences between the ßrjya^-dominated plant communities of Fennoscandia and those of the Pechora Plain could be partly explained by different geology and Quaternary environmental history. Fennoscandia was entirely glaciated, and the repeated glacier retreats were leaving behind well-drained soils developed on bare rocks, coarse moraine debris and fluvio-glacial deposits. In contrast, glaciations and sea transgressions in the Pechora Plain accumulated mainly glacial till and fluvial deposits.
Differentiation of the North European Dryas-dominated tundra at the alliance level corresponds to the eco-geographical division of the Arctic (Aleksandrova 1980), according to which the tundra of the Kola Peninsula and of the northern Pechora Plain differ at the level of sub-provinces; the former is related to the Kola Sub-province of the East-European-West-Siberian Province of sub-Arctic tundra, and the latter is related to the East-European Sub-province. This differentiation also matches the floristic division of the Arctic (Yurtzev 1994), in which the northern Pechora Plain belongs to the specific Kanin-Pechora Sub-province.
Dryado octopetalae-Caricetum arctisibiricae Koroleva et Kulyugina ass. nov. hoc loco
Nomenclature type releve (holotypus hoc loco desig-natus): Russia, Yugorskyi Peninsula, Pay-Khoy Mountains, top of the hill near Sareyakhato Lake, 69°01'21.4"N, 62°11'7.9"E, altitude 213 m, total vegetation cover 100%; sampled by E. Kulyugina using the 8-degree Braun-Blanquet scale in June 2010. Vascular plants (cover: 95%): Carex bigelowii
subsp. arctisibirica 4, Dryas octopetala 2b, Salix polaris 2b, Persicaria vivipara 1, Salix lanata 1, Vaccinium vitis-idaea 1, Astragalus alpinus subsp. arcticus +, Equisetum scirpoides +, Festuca ovi-na +, Hedysarum hedysaroides subsp. arcticum +, Luzula nivalis +, Myosotis asiatica +, Pedicularis sp. +, Petasites Jrigidus +, Poa arctica +, Pyrola grandiflora +, Ranunculus monophyllus +, Salix reticulata +, Stellaria longipes +, Valeriana capitata +, Eutrema edwardsii r, Persicaria bistorta r, Saxijraga hieraciJolia r, S. hirculus r.
Bryophytes (70%): Hylocomium splendens 3, Lepto-bryum pyrijorme 1, Ptilidium ciliare 1, tomentyp-num nitens 1, Dicranum angustum +, D. majus +, D. spadiceum +, Polytrichum hyperboreum +.
Lichens (5%): Peltigera aphthosa 1, thamnolia ver-micularis 1, Cetraria islandica +, Cladonia amau-rocraea +, C. arbuscula +, C. gracilis +, C. macro-ceras +, C. subjurcata +, Flavocetraria cucullata +, F. nivalis +, Lobaria linita +, Peltigera canina +, Stereocaulon alpinum +.
5. LEONtOPODIO NIVALIS-ELYNION MTOSUROIDIS: A NEW ALLIANCE OF THE SOUTHERN EUROPEAN ALPINE TUNDRA
(by Romeo Di Pietro)
Leontopodio nivalis-Elynion myosuroidis (Blasi et Di Pietro in Blasi, Di Pietro, Fortini et Cato-nica 2003) di pietro et Mucina all. nov. et stat. nov. hoc loco
(Leontopodio nivalis-Kobresion myosuroidis all. nov., stat. nov. et nom. mut. propos.) Basionym: Leontopodio nivalis-Elynenion myosuroidis Blasi et Di Pietro in Blasi, Di Pietro, Fortini et Catonica 2003 (as suballiance) Synonym pro parte min.: Seslerion apenninae Fur-
nari in Bruno et Furnari 1966 Name-giving species: Leontopodium nivale (Ten.) Hand.-Mazz., Kobresia myosuroides (Vill.) Fiori (syn.: Elyna myosuroides (Vill.) Janch.) Nomenclature type: Leontopodio nivalis-Elynetum myosuroidis Feoli-Chiapella et Feoli 1977 (identical with the holotype of the Leontopodio niva-lis-Elynenion myosuroidis) Character taxa: Achillea barrelieri subsp. barrelieri, A. barrelieri subsp. mucronulata, Adonis distorta, Alyssum cuneijolium, Androsace vitaliana subsp. praetutiana, Artemisia umbellijormis subsp. eri-
antha, Carex parviflora, Crepis magellensis, Eri-geron epiroticus, Gentiana brachyphylla subsp. favratii, G. nivalis, Leontopodium nivale, oxytro-pis campestris, Pedicularis verticillata, Saxifraga exarata subsp. ampullacea, Silene acaulis subsp. acaulis, Trifolium noricum subsp. praetutianum Differential species vs. the Seslerion apenninae: Carex capillaris, C. ericetorum, C. rupestris, oxy-tropis neglecta, Polygonum viviparum, Potentilla crantzii, Salix retusa, Sedum atratum Differential taxa vs. the oxytropido-Elynion: Carex kitaibeliana, Edraianthus graminifolius, Festuca violacea subsp. italica, Gentianella columnae, He-lictochloa versicolor subsp. praetutiana, Pedicularis elegans, Sesleriajuncifolia, trinia dalechampii
The alpine tundra vegetation is easily identifiable in the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Carpathians while it becomes rare towards lower latitudes, e.g. in the Apennines and in the Balkans. The stronger influence of the pronounced summer drought and consequent upward shift of the vegetation belts might have caused the impoverishment of the circumboreal and arctic-alpine flora in southern Europe after the end of the last gla-ciation. In the Apennines, the alpine belt is currently clearly distinguished only at the highest altitudes of Gran Sasso (2912 m), Majella (2786 m) and Monti di Laga (2445 m), which have relatively large areas above the altitude of 2300 m. In contrast, the alpine belt is absent or restricted to small patches in other Central Apennine mountain ranges that reach remarkable altitudes only through isolated peaks such as Mt Velino (2486 m) and Mt Vettore (2454 m). Neither the Northern Apennines nor the Southern Apennines have an alpine belt. The Northern Apennines are too low (maximum altitude: Mt Cimone, 2165 m) and therefore almost completely lacking the high-altitude primary grasslands except for some spatially restricted communities of the classes Juncetea trifidi, Elyno-Seslerietea (Caricion ferrugineae) and Salicetea herbaceae (Tomaselli & Petraglia 2003; Gennai et al. 2014). The Southern Apennines are higher than the Northern Apennines (max. alt.: Serra Dolcedorme, 2265 m) but the stronger influence of the Mediterranean climate and the weak effect of the Quaternary glaciations have caused an extreme impoverishment of the arctic-alpine species pool and the dominance of the regional endemics (e.g. Sesleria calabrica, S. nitida) and amphi-Adriatic elements (Carex kitaibeliana, festuca bosniaca) (Bonin 1978, Di Pietro 2010).
The syntaxonomy of the natural grasslands in the alpine belt of the Central Apennines has been studied by various authors starting from Furrer & Furnari (1960). All the papers published before 1980 classified the primary grasslands of the alpine belt to the alliance Seslerion apenninae Fur-nari in Bruno et Furnari 1966 (order Seslerietalia tenuifoliae Horvat 1930 or Seslerietalia apenninae Lakušic 1969; class Elyno-Seslerietea or festuco-Seslerietea). Pedrotti et al. (1982) were the first to make reference to the Ohba's class Carici-Kobresi-etea wherein they included the association Carici-Elynetum myosuroidis. Subsequently Biondi et al. (1999, 2000) added more associations (Leontopo-dio-Elynetum, 'Caricetum rupestris-kitaibelianae' and Seslerio-Dryadetum octopetalae) that were classified by the latter authors to the alliance oxytro-pido-Elynion. Blasi et al. (2003), in partial agreement with the proposal made by oriolo (2001) for the Eastern Alps, classified these associations and the new association Galio-Silenetum acaulis to a new suballiance - the Leontopodio nivalis-Elyne-nion myosuroidis of the Seslerion apenninae. This suballiance was proposed in order to distinguish the primary 'alpine tundra' from the primary and secondary grasslands occurring in the subalpine and montane belts. Later Blasi et al. (2005) and Di Pietro et al. (2008) included in the Leontopodio-Elynenion further two new associations (Leontopo-dio nivalis-Seslerietum and Helianthemo alpestris-festucetum italicae) described from the Majella Massif. Finally, Lancioni et al. (2011), although having confirmed the concept of the Leontopodio-Elynenion for the Central Apennines, proposed to re-classify the Leontopodio-Elynenion from the Seslerion apenninae (Elyno-Seslerietea) to the oxy-tropido-Elynion (Carici-Kobresietea).
In order to recognize the floristic, coenologi-cal and biogeographic features of the alpine belt vegetation in the Apennines and to match this biogeographic phenomenon within the syntaxo-nomical framework currently accepted for the other mountain ranges of southern Europe, we propose here to up-rank the suballiance Leontopo-dio nivalis-Elynenion myosuroidis Blasi et Di Pietro in Blasi, Di Pietro, Fortini et Catonica 2003 to the rank of an alliance. The nomenclature type is the association Leontopodio nivalis-Elynetum myo-suroidis Feoli-Chiapella et Feoli 1977 designated as the type of the suballiance Leontopodio-Elynen-ion by Blasi et al. (2003). The lectotype of the association Leontopodio-Elynetum was designated by Biondi et al. (2000).
The Leontopodio-Elynion includes Kobresia myo-suroides swards of the windy ridges, Silene acaulis cushion-like tundra and pioneer communities of Carex Jirma, C. rupestris and Dryas octopetala. The Sesleria juncifolia primary dry grasslands of the alpine belt are also included in the Leontopodio-Elynion. The characteristic component of the alliance includes Apennine endemics, amphi-Adriatic elements and south-eastern European mountain species that do not reach the Alps. The group of circumboreal species that was formerly considered as characteristic of the Leontopodio-Elynenion (Blasi et al. 2003) has been re-interpreted here as the group of species delimiting the Le-ontopodio-Elynion against the Seslerion apenninae. The decision not to include the alpine vegetation of the Apennines in the alliance Oxytropido-Elynion, originally described for the Alps (Gams 1936, Braun-Blanquet 1949) and also applied by some authors (ohba 1974, Feoli-Chiapella & Feoli 1977) to the Italian Peninsula, has several reasons. Firstly, many species of the Oxytropido-Elynion are absent in the Apennines and the Balkans (e.g. Agrostis alpina, Antennaria carpatica, Erigeron uniflorus, Festuca quadriflora, Lloydia serotina, Oxytropis halleri, O. jacquinii). Secondly, the communities of the Oxytropido-Elynion are spatially in contact with the Seslerietalia caeru-leae communities whereas the communities of the Leontopodio-Elynion are in contact with the Seslerietalia tenuifoliae communities. Species such as Sesleria caerulea or Carex sempervirens appear with high-frequency in the Oxytropido-Elynion communities but are completely absent from the Leontopodio-Elynion where they are substituted by the amphi-Adriatic elements such as Sesleria jun-cifolia and Carex kitaibeliana. In the classification of the Leontopodio-Elynion to the higher syntaxa, we prefer the criterion of biogeographical history over the strictly floristic one. on the basis of this criterion the relict stands of the primary alpine tundra occurring on the summits of the highest sub-Mediterranean mountain ranges are viewed as impoverished remnants of vegetation that dominated these areas during the Pleistocene glacial maxima and enabled repeated establishment of the Arctic flora in the southern European mountains. Although the Holocene climatic amelioration resulted in incursion of South European and Mediterranean-montane elements into this vegetation, we include the Leontopodio-Elynion to the arctic-circumboreal order Oxytropido-Elyneta-lia of the class Carici-Kobresietea.
The distribution of the Leontopodio nivalis-Elynion is the same as proposed by Blasi et al. (2003) for the original suballiance, i.e. restricted to the Central Apennines. The following associations are currently included in this alliance:
1.	Leontopodio nivalis-Elynetum Feoli-Chiapella et Feoli 1977
2.	Carici kitaibelianae-Elynetum Pedrotti 1982
3.	Seslerio juncifoliae-Dryadetum Biondi et al. 1999
4.	Caricetum rupestris-kitaibelianae Biondi et al. 2000
5.	Galio magellensis-Silenetum acaulis Blasi et al. 2003
6.	Helianthemo alpestris-Festucetum italicae Blasi et al. 2005
7.	Leontopodio nivalis-Seslerietum juncifoliae Blasi et al. 2005
However, if a less restrictive syntaxonomi-cal approach is adopted, the Leontopodio-Elynion distribution could be extended to include the highest altitudes of the mountain ranges of the central and southern Balkan Peninsula (Simon 1958, Lakušic 1970, Horvat et al. 1974) due to the occurrence of shared amphi-Adriatic high-altitude species such as Artemisia umbelliformis subsp. eriantha, Carex kitaibeliana, Leontopodium nivale and Sesleria juncifolia. Except for the fundamental paper of Ohba (1974), who included the order Crepidetalia dinaricae in the class Carici-Ko-bresietea, all the syntaxonomical schemes for the Balkan Peninsula (Lakušic 1969, 1970, Horvat et al. 1974, Redžic 2003, Redžic et al. 2011, Šalja & Redžic 2012) included the vegetation of the alpine belt either to the Seslerietalia tenuifoliae (western Balkans) or to the Onobrychido-Seslerietalia (central-eastern Balkans); both orders belong to the Elyno-Seslerietea. However in the south-western Dinarides and in Bulgaria there are several mountain ranges that support a true alpine belt (e.g. Durmitor, Prokletije, Šar-Planina-Korab, Pi-rin, Rila) where some relics of the circumboreal arctic-alpine glacial flora still occur (Stevanovic at al. 2009). Using the criterion of biogeographi-cal history as mentioned above the Elyno-Edrai-anthetum serpyllifolii Lakušic 1964, Elyno-Edraian-thetum alpini Lakušic 1964 and trifolio-Caricetum rupestris Horvat ex Horvat et al. 1974 would find their optimal syntaxonomical position in the class Carici-Kobresietea, most probably within the extended Leontopodio nivalis-Elynion or another, regional alliance of the Carici-Kobresietea. If an
Apennine-Balkan delimitation of the Leontopodio-Elynion was accepted, the mountain ranges of Korab, Prokletije, Rila and Pirin would represent the southernmost limit of the Carici-Kobresietea in south-eastern Europe.
6. LAGotlDo uRALEnSIS-CARICion EnSIFoLIAE: A NEW ALLIANCE OF ALPINE GRASSLANDS OF THE SOUTHERN URALS
(by Milan Chytry & Ladislav Mucina)
Lagotido uralensis-Caricion ensifoliae Chytry et Mucina all. nov. hoc loco
Nomenclature type (holotypus hoc loco designatus): Rhodiolo-Caricetum ensifoliae Ishbirdin, Mul-lagulov et Yanturin 1996 Pseudonym: Anemonastro-Festucion ovinae sensu Ishbirdin, Mullagulov et Yanturin 1996 non Chytry, Pešout et Anenchonov 1993 Name-giving taxa: Lagotis uralensis Schischk., Carex bigelowii subsp. ensifolia (Gorodkov) Holub
Diagnostic taxa: Anemone narcissiflora subsp. bi-armiensis, Campanula rotundifolia, Carex bigelowii subsp. ensifolia, Cerastium krylovii, Festuca igoschiniae, Hieracium iremelense, Juncus trifi-dus, Lagotis uralensis, Ligusticum mutellinoides, Persicaria alpina, Poa alpigena, Saussurea ^ura-lensis, Vaccinium uliginosum, V vitis-idaea, Aula-comnium turgidum, Hylocomium splendens, Poly-trichum commune, Rhytidium rugosum, Cetraria islandica, C. laevigata Rass., Cladonia arbuscula, C. rangiferina, C. stellaris, Flavocetraria cucullata
This alliance belongs to the class Juncetea trif-idi Hadač in Klika et Hadač 1944 and the order Juncetalia trifidi Daniels 1994. It includes the alpine tundra vegetation occurring above the tim-berline in the summit area of the Southern Ural Mountains, specifically on Mt Iremel' at altitudes above 1100 m. This vegetation comprises open stands of graminoids and herbs with a well-developed layer of bryophytes and lichens. The herb layer is usually dominated by graminoids such as Carex bigelowii subsp. ensifolia, C. vaginata, Festuca igoschiniae, Juncus trifidus and at wet sites also Eriophorum vaginatum. It includes several endemic taxa of the Ural Mountains such as Anemone narcis-siflora subsp. biarmiensis, Cerastium krylovii, Festuca
igoschiniae, Hieracium iremelense, Lagotis uralensis and Saussurea ^uralensis. Dwarf shrubs Vaccinium uliginosum and V. vitis-idaea are common. The moss layer is dominated by the mosses Aulacomnium turgidum, Hylocomium splendens, Polytrichum commune and Rhytidium rugosum, and lichens Cetraria islandica, C. laevigata, Cladonia arbuscula, C. rangiferina, C. stellaris and Flavocetraria cucullata.
This vegetation was described in detail by Ishbirdin et al. (1996), however, it was classified as part of the Anemonastro-Festucion ovinae Chytry et al. 1993 - an alliance originally described from the alpine mountain tundra near Lake Baikal in southern Siberia (Chytry et al. 1993). Both the mountain tundra in the Baikal region and that in the Urals are characterized by several species typical of the Arctic tundra and absence of the alpine species typical of more southern mountain ranges, therefore they belong to the order Junce-talia trifidi Daniels 1994. However, the species composition of the stands in the Urals is transitional between corresponding communities occurring in the European and Siberian mountain ranges, from which they are geographically isolated by extensive plains. Moreover, they contain several endemic species. Given the alliance concept used for the high-mountain grasslands in the EuroVegChecklist, this clearly supports the status of the Ural alpine tundra vegetation as a discrete alliance.
7. MUSCARio-SCILLion niVALIS:: THE MYSTERY OF AN ELUSIVE ALLIANCE
(by Ladislav Mucina)
Lovric & Rac (1989) described the Muscario-Scil-lion nivalis Lovric et Rac 1989 ('Muscari-Scillion nivalis (Quez. prov.) Lov. et Rac 1988' on p. 34 or Muscari-Scillion nivalis Lov. & Rac' on p. 40 in Table I). This unit is supposed to encompass the 'snow-bed' vegetation of the Balkans and the Asia Minor, typical of deep high-altitude karstic sinkholes experiencing longer snow cover, snow-rich stormy winters, and drought and intensive insolation in summer. According to these authors this vegetation is ecologically very different from the typical snow-bed vegetation of the Salicetea her-baceae. We agree with this assessment to the degree that the snow-beds in this area (and to small extent also those of the Greek Peninsula) should
be considered as belonging to a different class -the Trifolio anatolici-Polygonetea arenastri Quezel 1973. The concept of a single alliance (Musca-rio-Scillion nivalis) over the large geographic expanses (from the northern Balkans as far as the Turkish-Iranian border) is, however, highly unrealistic and not supported by the data presented in Lovric & Rac (1989).
Lovric & Rac (1989) classified twelve associations (names are given in original connotation) within this alliance (here we use the original forms of the names):
1.	'narcisso-Gentianetum nivalis Lov. et Rac (1988)'
2.	'Muscario-Scilletum nivalis (Lov. et Rac) prov.'
3.	'Myosotido-Gentianetum nivalis Lov. (1975) 1988'
4.	'Croco-Trifolietum pilczii prov.'
5.	'Croco-Scilletum subnivalis (Quez. prov. 1965) Lov. et Rac 1989a'
6.	'Gentiano-Scilletum subnivalis Lov. et Rac'
7.	'Ornithogalo-Muscarietum bourgaei Quezel (1973)'
8.	'Corydalo-Fritillarietum pinardii (Krause in Rikli 1948) prov.'
9.	'Fritillario-Scilletum nivalis Lov. et Rac (1989)'
10.	'Arabido-Scilletum ingridae Lov. et Rac (1989a)'
11.	'Muscario-Scilletum armenae prov.'
12.	'Sibbaldio-Gentianetum nivalis Lov. et Rac'
The Muscario-Scillion nivalis Lovric et Rac 1989 appears to be (serendipitously) validly described because at least the 'Ornithogalo-Muscarietum bourgaei Quezel (1973)' (recte: Muscario bourgaei-Ornithogaletum brevipedicellati Quezel 1973; orig. form (Quezel 1973: 205): 'Association a Muscari bourgaei et Ornithogalum brevipedicellatum') was validly described at the time of the description of the Muscario-Scillion nivalis, referred to its original diagnosis by an unambiguous bibliographical reference to Quezel (1973) and indicated at p. 135 as the type of the alliance name (in Croatian: 'nomenklaturni prototip cijele sveze Muscari-Scil-lion'). Moreover, the diagnostic species of the alliance are listed in Table 1 of Lovric & Rac (1989).
By inclusion of all the mentioned associations, eight of which appear to be merely nomina nuda, the authors created a biogeographically, ecologically and especially floristically very heterogeneous syntaxon spanning Croatia (associations 1, 2, 3), Macedonia and Hellas (ass. 4, 5, 6), Anatolia (ass. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) and Lazistan (ass. 12). Due to obscure nature of most of the associations included in the original diagnosis and poor releve material presented in Lovric & Rac (1989), it is
impossible at this stage to establish the syntax-onomy of the communities listed in the Muscario-Scillion nivalis coined for the East Mediterranean snowfields, from the Dinarides and the central and south-eastern mountain ranges of the Balkan Peninsula.
Lovric & Rac (1989) classified their Muscario-Scillion nivalis into the ' Trifolio-Polygonetalia Quez.' (obviously the Trifolio anatolicae-Polygonetalia arenastri Quezel 1973) and further into the 'Arrhenatheretea Br.-Bl.'. However, because of the selection a nomenclatural type from Anatolia, the Muscario-Scillion nivalis becomes a synonym of the Bolanthion frankenioidis Quezel 1973 (p. 202 and seq.). This alliance was classified within the order Trifolio anatolici-Polygonetalia arenastri Quezel 1973 and the class Trifolio anatolici-Polygonetea arenastri Quezel 1973 (see also Quezel et al. 1993).
Thus the syntaxonomic summary should read:
Trifolio anatolici-Polygonetea arenastri Quezel 1973 Trifolio anatolici-Polygonetalia arenastri Quezel 1973
Bolanthionfrankenioidis Quezel 1973 Syn.: Muscario-Scillion nivalis Lovric et Rac 1989
8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank Jean-Paul Theurillat and Wolfgang Willner for their very helpful comments on a previous version of this paper. M. C. was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (Centre of Excellence PLADIAS, 14-36079G).
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Received 27. 9. 2014 Revision received 14. 11. 2014 Accepted 17. 11. 2014