LICHALP

Myochroidea rufofusca (Anzi) Printzen, T. Sprib. & Tønsberg

Syn.: Biatora porphyroplaca Hinteregger & Poelt, Biatora rufofusca Anzi, Lecidea rufofusca (Anzi) Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, lignum, plant debris, living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: on terricolous mosses and plant debris on siliceous substrata, in the Alps regularly also on bark and wood of Rhododendron in the understory of subalpine coniferous forests, with optimum near treeline, in Northern Europe also on other phorophytes (Salix, Betula).