LICHALP

Calicium viride Pers.

Syn.: Calicium baliolum Ach., Calicium hyperellum (Ach.) Ach., Calicium lygodes Ach., Calicium peltatum Ach., Calicium proboscidale Ach., Calicium trachelinum (Ach.) Ach. var. epiphloeum Ach.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a holarctic, temperate to boreal-montane lichen found on Abies and Picea, but also on the rough bark of old oaks in humid areas; widespread and locally rather common throughout the Alps.