LICHALP

Bacidia piciloides (Zahlbr.) ined. (provisionally placed here, ICN Art. 36.1b)

Syn.: Catillaria piciloides Zahlbr.

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: siliceous rocks

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

Note: a species which is perhaps related to Catillaria picila, with a thin, greyish, subleprose to pulverulent thallus and sessile, brown-black, lecideine apothecia with a brown-black exciple and hypothecium, a brownish epihymenium, conglutinated, not distinctly capitate paraphyses, 8-spored asci, and hyaline, oblong 1-septate ascospores (16-18 × 5-6 μm); on sandstone in a montane forest, only known from the type locality in the Eastern Alps (Austria).