Abstract
A new motpellier maple (Acer monspessulanum L.) site was described in this paper, located on mountain Boranja, in forest management unit ?Istocna Boranja?, above Roguljski potok, on Glogovita kosa ridge. Montpellier maple occurs on elevations between 460 and 480 m a.s.l., on southwestern and western aspect, on very steep slopes with inclination 45? t? 50?. The site area is 874 m2, ?nd coordinates of site centre are: ?=19?13?49.0? and ?=44?25?21.33?. In this site, Montpellier maple occurs in a plant community of hop-hornbeam and manna ash, and considering that Montpellier maple was recorded in all three layers, and that it occurs abundantly in shrub and ground layers, a subassotiation with montpellier maple was set apart (?stryo carpinifoliae-Fraxinetum orni subass. ?ceretosum monspessulanii). According to floristic composition, most plant species belong to the submediterranean floral type, so this community represents an enclave of submediterranean vegetation in the belt of continental beech forests. The community is of azonal character, orographically-edaphically conditioned, and occurs in warmer aspects, on shallow and skeletal rendzina on oolithic limestones.
Highlights
Pa n či ć (1871) first recorded Montpellier maple (Acer monspessulanum L.) in Serbia in the first Serbian dendrology „Trees and shrubs in Serbia“
According to the „Basic geological map of Serbia“ (Мојsilović et al 1960-1968) and according to field research it is determined that the geological bedrock in the new site is layered and banked oolithic limestones ( Figure 4)
Jovanovi ć (1973) notes in „Flora of Serbia V“ that montpellier maple is widespread in Serbia, and most of its localities were recorded by Mišić (1981) in gorges and canyons of eastern Serbia, where it always occurs on limestone bedrock
Summary
Pa n či ć (1871) first recorded Montpellier maple (Acer monspessulanum L.) in Serbia in the first Serbian dendrology „Trees and shrubs in Serbia“. J ova n ov i ć (1973) notes that this maple is widespread species in Serbia. Most montpellier maple localities in Serbia were recorded by Mišić (1981) in gorges and canyons of Eastern Serbia: Đerdap, Zamna, Vratna, Pek, Lazareva reka, Crna reka, Grza, Ivanštica, Moravica, Јеrma, Suvodolska, Svrljiška, Resavska and Sićevačka gorges. Apart from gorges and canyons, montellier maple occurs in Eastern Serbia on the mountains of Мiroč, Rtanj, Greben and Vlaška. In Eastern Serbia, montpellier maple is represented in a wide number of forest and bush plant communities, and it occurs mostly in degraded oak forests and shrublands, dominated by oriental hornbeam, on limestone bedrock (Мišić, 1981)
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