LICHALP

Tetramelas insignis (Körb.) Kalb

Syn.: Buellia disciformis (Fr.) Mudd var. insignis (Körb.) Flagey, Buellia insignis Körb., Buellia insignis Körb. var. muscorum (Schaer.) Körb., Buellia parasema De Not. var. albocincta Th. Fr., Buellia parasema De Not. var. muscorum (Schaer.) Th. Fr., Lecidea insignis Nägeli ex Hepp nom. nud.

Lichenised.

Substrate: , living mosses, plant debris, lignum

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a species of the high European mountains found on terricolous mosses and plant debris, rarely on rock, lignum and bark, especially on basal parts of trunks.