Platismatia glauca (L.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.

Syn.: Cetraria fallax (Weber) Anders, Cetraria glauca (L.) Ach., Lichen glaucus L., Parmelia glauca (L.) Hepp, Platysma fallax (Weber) Hoffm., Platysma glaucum (L.) Frege
Lichenised.
Substrate: bark, lignum, siliceous rocks
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 cool-temperate to circumboreal species, abundant in the montane and subalpine belts, on bark of beech and of conifers, sometimes even on lignum.
Austria: Vorarlberg; Tirol; Salzburg; Kärnten; Steiermark; Oberösterreich; Niederösterreich (incl. Wien); Burgenland; Germany: Oberbayern; Switzerland: Appenzell; Bern; Fribourg; Glarus; Graubünden; Luzern; St. Gallen; Schwyz; Ticino; Uri; Unterwalden; Vaud; Valais; France: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; Haute-Alpes; Alpes-Maritimes; Isère; Savoie; Haute-Savoie; Vaucluse; Var; Italy: Friuli; Veneto; Trentino Alto Adige; Lombardia; Piemonte; Valle d'Aosta; Liguria; Slovenia: Alpine and Pre-Alpine Slovenia; Trnovsky Gozd; Liechtenstein