LICHALP

Lecanora barkmaniana Aptroot & Herk

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a species of the L. subfusca-group with a grey, rimose to angular-verrucose thallus bearing punctiform but soon confluent soralia, the soredia granular and greenish-grey, apothecia rare; corticolous, usually on roadside trees in sites with strong eutrophication; most common in Western Europe and widespread in the Alps, but rarely collected.