Milica Stanišić-Vujačić, D. Stešević, S. Hadžiablahović, U. Šilc
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Abstract Our study deals with dry grasslands dominated by Romulea bulbocodium, Romulea linaresii subsp. graeca and Romulea columnae that develop in early spring in the eastern Mediterranean region. Based on numerical classification, we describe two new associations: Romuleo bulbocodii-Poetum bulbosae ass. nova and Ornithogalo exscapii-Poetum bulbosae ass. nova. The studied communities are classified within the Romuleion alliance, order Poetalia bulbosae, and class Poetea bulbosae. We analyzed all available relevés of Romuleion communities from the eastern Mediterranean and ordination analysis (NMDS) revealed that temperature and altitude are the most important ecological factors influencing the vegetation composition and distribution of dry grasslands of the Romuleion alliance. Newly described associations from Montenegro are floristically and ecologically similar to the Alyssum alyssoides-Poa bulbosa community from Epirus (Greece).