title: New higher syntaxa of the steppe vegetation in the North Caucasus
abstract: Geobotanical studies were carried out in the North Caucasus, in the Stavropol kray (Russia) on Beshtau, Byk, Verblyud, Dzhutsa, Dubrovka, Zolotoy Kurgan, Kokurtly, Lysaya, Mashuk, Yutsa magmatic mountains, Bor-gustan and Dzhinal ringes in 2017, 2019–2021. Syntaxonomic analysis carried out from the standpoint of J. Braun-Blanquet approach (1964) made it possible to establish 2 new associations (Allio albidi–Dictamnetum caucasici ass. nov. hoc loco, Helianthemo buschii–Elytrigietum stipifoliae ass
journal: Diversity of plant world