Biatora fallax Hepp
Syn.: Biatorina fallax (Hepp) Hepp, Biatora vernalis (L) Fr. f. fallax (Hepp) Arnold, Lecidea fallax (Hepp) Linds.
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 species with a granular-verrucose to microsquamulose thallus reacting Pd+ red; corticolous, on the base of coniferous trees; most records from the Alps are historical.
Austria: Tirol; Salzburg; Kärnten; Germany: Oberbayern; Schwaben; Switzerland: Bern; Graubünden; Schwyz; Ticino; Uri; Valais; Slovenia: Alpine and Pre-Alpine Slovenia;
