LICHALP

Chaenotheca brunneola (Ach.) Müll. Arg.

Syn.: Calicium brunneolum Ach., Calicium flexipes Ach., Calicium melanophaeum Ach. var. brunneolum (Ach.) Schaer., Cyphelium brunneolum (Ach.) De Not., Phacotium brunneolum (Ach.) Trevis.

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum

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: on relatively soft-decomposed lignum of old coniferous stumps in humid woodlands, more rarely on wood of deciduous trees, very rarely corticolous; widespread throughout the Alps.