Illyrian mat-grass swards

Mesophile and xerophile [Nardus stricta]-dominated or -rich grasslands of relatively high-rainfall lowland, collinar and montane regions of the Dinarides of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, northwestern Albania, mostly characteristic of the [Fagion illyricum] beech level and of the heaths of the [Carpinion illyricum] environment, extending into the Adriatic-influenced western forests of the [Fagion moesiacum].