Oat grass meadows with steppe-clary in the surroundings of Sečanj in Banat

U okolici Sečnja u istočnom Banatu (si. 1), na nasipu uz rijeku Tamiš, razvijene su livade pahovke sa stepskom kaduljom (Salvia nemorosa), usko srodne analognim livadama u sjeveroistočnoj Hrvatskoj i zajedno s njima podređene istoj vegetacijskoj jedinici, koju su pod imenom Arrhenatheretum medioeuropaeum salvietosum nemorosae opisali Ilijanić i Šegulja (1978). Opisane sastojine tih livada u Banatu i u sjeveroistočnoj Hrvatskoj leže u području koje je na karti Glavača (Horvat, Glava č, Ellenberg 1974) označeno kao zona sveze Aceri tatarici-Quercion. To je s fitogeografskog gledišta vrlo bitno, jer dovodi do zaključka da opisani tip livada pahovke predstavlja sastavni dio specifičnog kompleksa zajednica navedene zone u tom području.Oat grass meadows with steppe-clary (Salvia nemorosa) spread over the embankments of the Tamis in the surroundings of Sečanj in the eastern part of Middle Banat in the Province of Vojvodina (Fig. 1). They are related to analogous meadows of north-eastern Croatia and have been classified with the same vegetation unit described earlier as the subassociation Arrhenatheretum medioeuropaeum salvietosum nemorosae llijanic et Šegulja 1978. The stands in Banat and north-eastern Croatia are situated in the region marked in Glavač’s map (Horvat, Glavac, Ellenberg 1974) as Aceri tatarici-Quercion-zone (Fig. 1). This leads to a phytogeo- graphic conclusion that the type of oat grass meadows with steppe-clary presented here make an integral part of a specific complex of plant communities of the forest-steppe vegetation zone in that region. They replace there the analogous oat grass meadows of the more humid regions of Croatia distributed over the vegetation zone of Carpinion betuli illyricum, and analogous oat grass meadows of Central Europe