LICHALP

Gyalecta carneola (Ach.) Hellb.

Syn.: Bacidia carneola (Ach.) De Not., Bacidia cornea (With.) A. Massal., Biatora carneola (Ach.) Fr., Gyalecta cornea (With.) Tuck., Gyalecta interserta (Nyl.) H. Olivier, Lecidea carneola Ach., Lecidea interserta Nyl., Pachyphiale carneola (Ach.) Arnold, Pachyphiale cornea (With.) Poetsch

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a mild-temperate species found in old, humid forests; widespread, but rare and very much declining in the Alps.