LICHALP

Cladonia carneola (Fr.) Fr.

Syn.: Cenomyce carneola Fr., Cladonia carneopallida (Ach.) Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, living mosses, lignum,

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, mainly boreal-montane to subarctic lichen found on rotting wood and soil rich in humus in open montane to subalpine woodlands, sometimes reaching the alpine belt; widespread throughout the Alps.