LICHALP

Fellhaneropsis vezdae (Coppins & P. James) Sérus. & Coppins

Syn.: Bacidia vezdae Coppins & P. James, Fellhanera vezdae (Coppins & P. James) V. Wirth

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a species with apothecia in various shades of brown, frequently becoming tuberculate, and mostly 5-7-septate ascospores which are longer than 30 µm; on bark of broad-leaved (mainly Quercus) and coniferous (e.g. Abies) trees in very humid forests, especially on basal parts of trunks, sometimes foliicolous; widespread in Western and Central Europe and Macaronesia, with a few records from the Alps.