Continental riverine willow scrub

Willow-dominated scrub of banks and shoals of rivers of the steppe, wooded steppe, cold semidesert and desert zones of Eurasia and of their associated steppic or desert mountain ranges, in particular, of the Pannonic basin, of the Ponto-Sarmatic steppes, of the Central Eurasian and East Asian steppes, deserts and semideserts, of the Irano-Anatolian steppes and their mediterranean or desert transitions.