LICHALP

Japewia tornoensis (Nyl.) Tønsberg

Syn.: Biatora breadalbanensis (Stirt.) Walt. Watson, Biatora tornoensis (Nyl.) Th. Fr., Lecidea breadalbanensis Stirt., Lecidea frigidella Nyl., Lecidea tornoensis Nyl., Mycoblastus tornoensis (Nyl.) R.A. Anderson

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, lignum, plant debris

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 circumboreal-montane species found on twigs of shrubs, on terricolous mosses and plant debris in upland areas, usually over siliceous substrata.