Abstract

In this paper, the turkey oak forest fragments occurring in the Zákány Hills of SW Hungary are described and characterized based on 10 phytosociological samples. The stands grow on pebbly hilltops covered with loess. Their species composition features subcontinental-submediterranean and Illyrian influences: Anemone trifolia, Castanea sativa, Peucedanum verticillare, Polystichum setiferum, Primula vulgaris, Tamus communis. These forests are identified with the association Asphodelo-Quercetum roboris occurring in the sand hills and pebble hills in Transdanubia. Although to some degree these fragments represent transitional stands to the surrounding oak-hornbeam forests (Anemoni trifoliae-Carpinetum), they clearly differ in species composition. The association is classified into the suballiance Quercenion farnetto Kevey in Kevey et Borhidi 2005 within the alliance Quercion farnetto I. Horvat 1954.

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