LICHALP

Epigloea grummannii Döbbeler

Non- or doubtfully lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a species with 32-spored asci and fusiform, 1-septate ascospores (10-14 × 1.5-2 µm) with a gelatinous appendage at both ends; on algal colonies developing on dying mats of Grimmia and Hypnum, certainly overlooked and more widespread in the Alps.