LICHALP

Cladonia crispata (Ach.) Flot. var. crispata

Syn.: Baeomyces turbinatus Ach. var. crispatus Ach., Cladonia crispata (Ach.) Flot. var. dilacerata (Schaer.) Malbr., Cladonia crispata (Ach.) Flot. var. divulsa (Delise) Arnold, Cladonia crispata (Ach.) Flot. var. elegans (Delise) Vain., Cladonia crispata (Ach.) Flot. var. infundibulifera (Schaer.) Vain., Cladonia crispata (Ach.) Flot. var. subracemosa Vain.

Lichenised.

Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), calciferous soil, living mosses, lignum

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 boreal-montane to subarctic-subalpine, circumpolar species found on soil, more rarely on lignum, in open habitats, in areas near treeline with siliceous substrata; widespread throughout the Alps.