LICHALP

Bacidia herbarum (Stizenb.) Arnold

Syn.: Bacidia fraterna Anzi, Mycobilimbia herbarum (Stizenb.) Rehm, Secoliga herbarum Stizenb.

Lichenised.

Substrate: ,

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a cool-temperate to arctic-alpine, probably circumpolar lichen found on plant remains and moribund bryophytes on calciferous ground, more rarely on bark, with optimum in upland areas; widespread throughout the Alps.