Placidium velebiticum (Zahlbr. ex Zschacke) Breuss

Placidium velebiticum (Zahlbr. ex Zschacke) Breuss

Syn.: Catapyrenium velebiticum (Zahlbr. ex Zschacke) Breuss & Etayo, Dermatocarpon velebiticum Zahlbr. ex Zschacke

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil

Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a species resembling P. rufescens in e.g. the marginal pycnidia, but squamules thinner (hardly exceeding 400 µm) and ascospores narrower; overgrowing calcicolous bryophytes in temporarily moist sites; widespread in Southern and Central Europe but altogether rare, with a few records from the Eastern Alps (Austria).

Austria: Oberösterreich; Niederösterreich (incl. Wien); Slovenia: Alpine and Pre-Alpine Slovenia;

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