LICHALP

Lecidea erythrophaea Flörke ex Sommerf.

Syn.: Biatora erythrophaea (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Fr., Lecidea hyalinella (Körb.) Jatta, Lecidea tenebricosa auct. non Ach.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

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: a mainly boreal-montane, probably circumpolar species of acid bark, especially of conifers, in humid-cold situations, e.g. in Sphagnum bogs. Closely related to L. rhododendri and certainly not a Lecidea s.str.