A Harkányi-sík gyertyános-tölgyesei (Corydali cavae-Carpinetum Kevey 2008)

Abstract

This paper presents the phytosociological characteristics of the oak-hornbeam forests on the Harkány plain based on an analysis of 25 phytosociological samples. These forests are only weakly influenced by groundwater, and thus exhibit features of dry oak forests. They sharply differ from the oak-hornbeam forests (Veronico montanae-Carpinetum) growing on young alluvial deposits in the neighboring Drava plain. In species composition, they most resemble the oak-hornbeam forests (Corydali cavae-Carpinetum) of the also neighboring Nagynyárád plain that is covered with loess. Thus, as an association, they are identified with the latter. Owing to the sporadic occurrence of Aremonio-Fagion elements (Lonicera caprifolium, Luzula forsteri, Primula vulgaris, Tamus communis, Tilia tomentosa), this association exhibits a moderate sub-Mediterranean character.