LICHALP

Calicium lenticulare Ach.

Syn.: Calicium amylocaule Lettau, Calicium atroviride Körb., Calicium cladoniscum auct. non Ach., Calicium lenticulare Ach. var. cladoniscum auct. non (Ach.) Schaer., Calicium quercinum Pers. var. lenticulare (Ach.) Nyl., Calicium schaereri sensu Nádv. non De Not., Calicium subquercinum Asahina, Calicium virescens (Schaer.) Hepp

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum, 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 cool-temperate to boreal-montane, circumpolar species found on lignum of decorticated stumps and trunks of conifers; widespread throughout the Alps.