LICHALP

Calicium abietinum Pers.

Syn.: Calicium cervicatulum Ach., Calicium curtum Turner & Borrer ex Sm., Calicium minutum (Körb.) Arnold, Calicium nigrum auct. p.p.

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum, 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 temperate to boreal-montane, circumpolar species found on old wood of conifers, but also on bark, especially of Abies, much more rarely on deciduous trees (e.g. on Castanea) and, in humid areas, on wooden poles; widespread throughout the Alps.