LICHALP

Epilichen glauconigellus (Nyl.) Hafellner

Syn.: Buellia scabrosa (Ach.) A. Massal. var. cinereascens Th. Fr., Lecidea glauconigella Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata),

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a species with an indistinct thallus and crowded but dispersed, marginate apothecia; parasitic on species of Baeomyces (mostly B. rufus); widespread in Northern Europe, very rare in the Central European mountains, with a few records from the Eastern Alps.