Biatora globulosa (Flörke) Fr.
Syn.: Bacidia globulosa (Flörke) Hafellner & V. Wirth, Bacidia pinguicula (Bagl. & Carestia) Lettau, Biatora hyalina Fr., Biatora minuta (Schaer.) Hepp, Biatora sylvana Körb., Biatorina globulosa (Flörke) Körb., Bilimbia pinguicula Bagl. & Carestia, Catillaria globulosa (Flörke) Th. Fr., Lecania globulosa (Flörke) van den Boom & Sérus., Lecania hyalina (Fr.) R. Sant., Lecidea globulosa Flörke, Lecidea minuta (Schaer.) A. Massal., Lecidea sylvana (Körb.) Th. Fr.
Lichenised.
Substrate: bark, lignum
Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)
Note: a mainly temperate, perhaps holarctic lichen found on acid and rough bark of broad-leaved trees in sheltered situations, often in fissures, and in association with calicioid species; widespread throughout the Alps.
Austria: Vorarlberg; Tirol; Salzburg; Kärnten; Steiermark; Oberösterreich; Niederösterreich (incl. Wien); Germany: Oberbayern; Schwaben; Switzerland: Bern; Fribourg; Glarus; Graubünden; Luzern; Schwyz; Ticino; Uri; Unterwalden; Vaud; Valais; France: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; Alpes-Maritimes; Isère; Haute-Savoie; Vaucluse; Var; Italy: Friuli; Veneto; Trentino Alto Adige; Lombardia; Piemonte; Valle d'Aosta; Liguria; Slovenia: Alpine and Pre-Alpine Slovenia; Trnovsky Gozd;