LICHALP

Bilimbia microcarpa (Th. Fr.) Th. Fr.

Syn.: Bacidia hypnophila (Turner ex Ach.) Zahlbr. subsp. microcarpa (Th. Fr.) Th. Fr., Bacidia microcarpa (Th. Fr.) Lettau, Bacidia obscurata (Sommerf.) Zahlbr. var. microcarpa Th. Fr., Bilimbia hypnophila (Turner ex Ach.) Th. Fr., subsp. microcarpa (Th. Fr.) Th. Fr., Bilimbia obscurata (Sommerf.) Th. Fr. var. microcarpa Th. Fr., Lecidea meiobola Nyl., Lecidea microcarpa (Th. Fr.) Vain., Mycobilimbia microcarpa (Th. Fr.) Brunnb., Myxobilimbia microcarpa (Th. Fr.) Hafellner

Lichenised.

Substrate: plant debris, 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 alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: an arctic-alpine lichen found on mosses in dry grasslands, sometimes on epilithic bryophytes, with optimum near or above treeline; widespread throughout the Alps.