Home – Home – Jornals – Flora and Vegetation of Asian Russia 2018 number 1

Floristic classification of the vegetation of the subalpine belt of Kuznetsky Alatau belonging to the class Mulgedio-Aconitetea Hadač et Klika et Hadač 1944 is presented in the article. Mulgedio-Aconitetea is a zonal class of vegetation the area of which covers the boreal holarctic. In the subalpine belt of Kuznetsky Alatau it is represented by tall-forb and meadow phytocenoses, in a complex with krummholz and shrub communities. In the research territory 10 associations, 2 subassociations and 1 community, relating to two orders were revealed: Trollio- Crepidetalia sibiricae and Schulzio crinitae-Aquilegietalia glandulosae . Among them three associations Aquilegio glandulosae-Phleetum alpini , Doronico altaici-Veratretum lobeliani , Erytronio sibirici-Stemmacanthetum carthamoidis and one subassociation E . s .- S . c . ranunculetosum propinqui are have been described for the first time. For identification of ecological regularities of vegetation, formation of the class Mulgedio-Aconitetea of the subalpine belt of Kuznetsky Alatau DCA-ordination of geobotanical descriptions was carried out.