Helleno-Moesian montane oak forests

Rare forests of the hills and low mountain slopes of the Pelagonids, the Pindus, the Moeso-Macedonian mountains, the Rhodopids, in particular of the supra-Mediterranean level of northern and middle Greece, of the hornbeam-durmast oak belt of southwestern Bulgaria, the F.Y.R. of Macedonia and Albania, dominated by rare, endemic oak species, in particular [Quercus protoroburoides], or by highly disjunct populations of more northern species, in particular [Quercus petraea].