LICHALP

Gomphillus calycioides (Delise ex Duby) Nyl.

Syn.: Baeomyces calycioides Delise ex Duby, Baeopodium calycioides (Delise ex Duby) Trevis., Berengeria calycioides (Delise ex Duby) A. Massal., Mycetodium calycioides (Delise ex Duby) A. Massal.

Lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses, bark

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus)

Note: a mild-temperate to tropical species found on bryophytes, mostly on basal parts of old trunks in mature warm-humid forests at low elevations. The regions from which it was reported, mostly in the Insubrian district of Italy, are presently affected by air pollution, so that the species might be extinct.