Galicio-Portuguese oak woods with Quercus robur and Quercus pyrenaica

Description (English)

Quercus pyrenaica -dominated forests (Quercion robori-pyrenaicae).
Subtypes:
Pal. 41.61 Central Iberian Quercus pyrenaica forests:
Supra- and sometimes meso-Mediterranean Quercus pyrenaica forests of western Iberia, the Leonese interior, the Cordillera Central, the Iberian Range, the Montes de Toledo and the Sierra Morena.
Pal. 41.62 Cantabrian Quercus pyrenaica forests:
Melampyro pratense-Quercetum pyrenaicae, Linario triornithophorae-Quercetum pyrenaicae
Quercus pyrenaica formations of medio-European character, of the collinar and montane levels of the Cantabrian chain and its satellite ranges west to the Sierra de Picos de Ancares in Galicia, characteristic of areas with comparatively low precipitation, in the rain shadow of the coastward ranges or the interior oro-Cantabrian hills.
Pal. 41.63 Maestrazgan Quercus pyrenaica forests:
Cephalanthero rubrae-Quercetum pyrenaicae
Quercus pyrenaica forests of the sub-Mediterranean siliceous enclaves of the Maestrazgo and eastern Catalonian ranges, reduced to a very few relicts in the Penagolosa and Prades massifs.
Pal. 41.64 Baetic Quercus pyrenaica forests:
Adenocarpo decorticantis- Quercetum pyrenaicae
Quercus pyrenaica forests of siliceous supra-Mediterranean areas with subhumid climate of the western Sierra Nevada, the Sierra de Alfacar, the northern flanks of the Sierra de Cazulas and the Sierra Tejeda; in more humid locations Fraxinus angustifolia and Acer granatense accompany Quercus pyrenaica.
Pal. 41.65 French Quercus pyrenaica forests:
Betulo-Quercetum pyrenaica i. a.
Quercus pyrenaica forests of south-western France north to the Sologne where they constitute relatively extensive formations on poor soils, with Betula pendula, Lonicera periclymenum, Deschampsia flexuosa, Holcus mollis, Molinia caerulea, Teucrium scorodonia.