Original scientific paper

Spiraea salicifolia L. in Croatian Forests

Đuro Rauš ; Hrvatska
Joso Vukelić ; Hrvatska

Abstract

The willow-like meadowsweet (Spiraea salicifolia L.) is an extremely rare shrub in the forest associations of Croatia. After investigating the forest vegetations of Croatia for many years, and analyzing numbers of phytocoenological surveys of other authors, we have so far established only three forest locations where this species grows: Drežničko Polje in the wider Ogulin area; the area of Česma near Vrbovec and the Đurđevac lowland forests near the Podravina village of Kalinovac (Fig. 1).
On the first location, it grows in the association of Genisto elatae-Quercetum roboris Horv. 38; on the second, Frangulo-Alnetum glutinosae Rauš 69, and the third, in the phytocoenoses of Pruno-Fraxinetum Oberd. 53 and Carici elongatae-Alnetum glutinosae Koch 26. The habitats of these associations are of higher or lesser depression and are occasionally flooded. Spiraea salicifolia has not been clearly defined sociologically, and Central European authors classify it as a characteristic species of the alliance Pruno- Rubion fruticosi Doing 62.
Two localities in the forest associations in which these species appears have therefore been proclaimed special forest vegetation reserves, whereas the Česma locality has recently been recommended for such protection.

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Hrčak ID:

159714

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/159714

Publication date:

31.12.1991.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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