Helleno-Moesian [Quercus virgiliana] forests

Common name:
Helleno-Moesian [Quercus virgiliana] forests
Habitat code:
G1.765
Description:

Local [Quercus virgiliana]-dominated forests of the hills and low mountain slopes of the Pelagonids, the Pindus, the Moeso-Macedonian mountains, the Rhodopids, the Thessalian mountains, in particular of the supra-Mediterranean Quercion frainetto level of northern and middle Greece (Macedonia, Thrace, Epiros, Thessaly, Central Greece) and of the “Querceta frainetti” component of the xerothermal oak belt of southern and southwestern Bulgaria.

Important species scientific name Corresponding species comments
Quercus virgiliana (Ten.) Ten., 1836
Quercus frainetto Ten., 1813
Quercus pubescens Willd., 1805 Species mentioned in habitat definition as characterising