LICHALP

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

Syn.: Biatora porphyrospoda Anzi, Lecidea porphyrospoda (Anzi) Th. Fr.

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 lichen found especially on basal parts of trunks, on bark, sometimes on lignum, mostly in upland areas; probably more widespread in the Alps. Earlier records from Switzerland (LU, UW) refer to Protoparmelia hypotremella.