LICHALP

Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.

Syn.: Capitularia amaurocraea Flörke, Cladonia destricta (Nyl.) Ohlert

Lichenised.

Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), calciferous soil, living mosses

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 circumpolar, boreal-subarctic-subalpine lichen found on soil and bryophytes in open habitats, mostly in sites with a long snow cover; widespread throughout the Alps, but only locally common.