LICHALP

Cladonia floerkeana (Fr.) Flörke

Syn.: Cenomyce floerkeana Fr., Cladonia berghsonii Asperges, Cladonia floerkeana (Fr.) Flörke var. brebissonii (Delise) Vain., Cladonia floerkeana (Fr.) Flörke var. carcata (Ach.) Vain., Cladonia floerkeana (Fr.) Flörke var. chloroides (Flörke) Vain., Cladonia macilenta Hoffm. subsp. floerkeana (Fr.) V. Wirth, Cladonia macilenta Hoffm. var. carcata (Ach.) Nyl., Cladonia macilenta Hoffm. var. corticata Vain.

Lichenised.

Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), living mosses, lignum, plant debris

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 circumboreal-montane species found on organic soil and peat, but also on sand, more rarely on lignum, with optimum in the subalpine belt; widespread throughout the Alps but only locally common.