LICHALP

Thamnolia vermicularis (Sw.) Schaer. var. vermicularis

Syn.: Cenomyce taurica (Wulfen) Röhl., Cenomyce vermicularis (Sw.) Röhl., Cladonia taurica (Wulfen) Hoffm., Cladonia vermicularis (Sw.) DC., Lichen vermicularis Sw.

Lichenised.

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

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: an arctic-alpine, circum- and bipolar lichen found on wind-exposed alpine tundras, both on calcareous and siliceous substrata; molecular sequence data suggest that the two chemotypes, which are provisionally still accepted here, do not form well-supported, monophyletic lineages.