Moesian oriental hornbeam thickets

Shrub communities dominated, or co-dominated, by [Carpinus orientalis], often rich in [Syringa vulgaris], [Cotinus coggygria] and other characteristically Moesian shrubs, of warm foothill slopes of the Southern and Eastern Carpathians, the Balkan Range, the Moeso-Macedonian Mountains, the Rhodopides, the Pelagonides, and neighbouring regions, within the geographical range of Quercion frainetto, Fagion moesiacum, Fagion dacicum, and, locally, Ostryo-Carpinion forests.