LICHALP

Trapeliopsis aeneofusca (Flörke ex Flot.) Coppins & P. James

Syn.: Biatora aeneofusca (Flörke ex Flot.) Arnold, Lecidea aeneofusca Flörke ex Flot., Lecidea prasinorufa Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), 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 subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: very similar to T. gelatinosa, but apothecia in various shades of brown (instead of blackish green), sterile specimens therefore indistinguishable; on soil, rare throughout Europe and North America, with a few scattered records from the Alps.