Periodicum biologorum, Vol. 117 No. 3, 2015.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.18054/pb.2015.117.3.3141
Nomenclature adjustments to neglected syntaxa of the tall-herb hygrophilous communities of the SE-Europe
Dmitar Lakušić
; Institute of Botany and Botanical garden Jevremovac, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Takovska 43, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Vladimir Ranđelović
; Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, 18000 Niš, Serbia.
Romeo Di Pietro
; Department of Planning, Design and Technology of Architecture, Section Environment and Landscape, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Flaminia 72, I-00196 Rome, Italy
Abstract
Background and Purpose: During the preparation of a coenological
paper concerning the tall-herb vegetation of the Balkans, it emerged that some syntaxa were invalidly described in their original papers, while some other synataxa had been forgotten or considered invalid according to the current phytosociological literature even if they had been validly published in their original papers. The present study deals with the nomenclatural problems of the Rumicetalia balcanici Lakušić 1973, a neglected order of the montane tall-herb vegetation, and those of all its related lower-rank syntaxa.
Materials and Methods: All published papers that treated the nomenclatural issues regarding the tall-herb vegetation in the Balkans were analysed. The nomenclature adjustments were made in accordance with the rules of the Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (ICPN). The original relevés presented in this paper were carried out using the Braun-Blanquet phytosociological approach.
Results and Conclusions: The nomenclature adjustments made in the
paper result in the validation of the order Rumicetalia balcanicae and of four alliances: Rumicion balcanici, Ranunculion serbici, Cicerbition
pancici and Petasition doerfleri. The validity of the alliance Cirsion appendiculati Horvat, Pawlowski et Walas 1937 was here confirmed while the name citation Geion coccinei Horvat in Quezel 1969 was here given for the first time. Finally several tall-herbs association were here validated and some others were proposed as new.
Keywords
Balkan vegetation; ICPN; Mulgedio-Aconitetea; Phytosociology; Syntaxonomy
Hrčak ID:
151207
URI
Publication date:
30.11.2015.
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