Helleno-Balkanic pseudomaquis

Description (English)

Shrub formations intermediate between Mediterranean maquis and schibljak (Southeastern sub-Mediterranean deciduous thickets), resulting from the degradation of the Ostryo-Carpinion of the Helleno-Balkanic peninsula, distributed in particular in northern Greece, in the Maritsa, Tundja, Mesta, Struma and Vardar valleys of Bulgaria and the F.Y.R. of Macedonia, in the Lake Ohrid basin of Albania, along the Black Sea coasts of Bulgaria, and in the eastern Adriatic hills of Albania, Yugoslavia and Croatia, with a mixture of evergreen and deciduous bushes including Quercus coccifera, Juniperus oxycedrus, Juniperus excelsa, Quercus trojana, Carpinus orientalis, Ostrya carpinifolia, Pistacia terebinthus, Pistacia atlantica, Berberis cretica, Paliurus spina-christi, Pyrus spinosa, Buxus sempervirens, Phillyrea media, Prunus spinosa, Prunus lusitanica, Laurus nobilis, Ligustrum vulgare, Jasminum fruticans, Crataegus monogyna, Crataegus pycnoloba, Pyracantha coccinea, Rosa sempervirens, Rubus ulmifolius.

Source: EUNIS habitat classification