Proposal (32) to conserve the name Agrostion castellanae with a conserved type

The alliance name Agrostion castellanae has been widely used for nearly sixty years to indicate a type of acidophilic perennial grasslands occurring in the Iberian Peninsula. At present, is classified order Agrostietalia , and class Stipo giganteae-Agrostietea . However, nomenclatural (lectotype) therophytic grassland, namely association Holco setiglumis-Anthoxanthetum aristati that was consistently two decades by authors within Helianthemetea guttati In preserve its current use, we propose designate Festuco amplae-Agrostietum as conserved alliance. (32) Rivas Goday 1958 corr. 1964: 353 nom. cons. propos. Typus: Rivas-Martínez et Belmonte 1986: 418 (typus propos.). (≡) castellano-tenuis Rivas-Goday 1958: 626 inept. Taxonomic reference : Euro+Med (2023). Syntaxonomic Mucina al. (2016). Abbreviations EVC = EuroVegChecklist (Mucina 2016); ICPN 4 th edition International Code Phytosociological Nomenclature (Theurillat 2021).