Forests of Pinus sylvestris ssp. sylvestris and Pinus sylvestris ssp. hamata of the Nemoral and Mediterranean zones and of their transitions to the Steppe zone. Included are, in particular, the forests of Scotland, of the Alpine system, of the Mediterranean peninsulas, of the lowlands of Central Europe, of the East European Nemoral zone and its adjacent wooded steppes, formed by Pinus sylvestris ssp. sylvestris, as well as those of Anatolia, of the Caucacus and of Crimea, formed by Pinus sylvestris ssp. hamata. Excluded are the formations situated within the range of natural lowland occurrence of Picea abies.
Pinus sylvestris-dominated facies of the thermophilous, supra-Mediterranean oak woods (unit G1.7), alternated, mixed or imbricated with Quercus pubescens or Quercus faginea woods in the southwestern Alpine foothills, on the periphery of the Central Massif, along the southern flank of the Pyrenees and, locally, in the Ligurian and Insubrian Alps, in the western Alps of the northern Dauphiné‚ and Savoie, in the northern Apennines and on the northern flank of the Pyrenees. Buxus sempervirens is usually abundant in the undergrowth; other components of the shrub layer include Corylus avellana, Sorbus aria, Sorbus torminalis, Acer opalus, Acer campestre, Acer monspessulanum, Euonymus latifolius, Genista cinerea, Juniperus communis.