Icelandic palsa mounds

Palsa mounds of the periglacial arctoalpine highlands of central Iceland, 0.5-2.5 metres high, 2-10 metres long, 1-7 metres broad, surrounded by a narrow lake-like lagg or a minerotrophic mud-bottom mire, generally of the Icelandic Carex rostrata-Carex rariflora type (unit D2.3H2), occupied, on the tops, by shrub communities dominated by Empetrum hermaphroditum, with Dryas octopetala, Salix herbacea, Armeria maritima, Silene acaulis, Kobresia myosuroides, the mosses Drepanocladus uncinatus, Racomitrium canescens, the sphagnum Sphagnum teres and the lichen Cetraria islandica, and on the lower slopes by communities dominated by Salix glauca ssp. callicarpaea (Salix arctica), Salix herbacea and Calamagrostis neglecta.

Código Eunis 2021: Q3112