LICHALP

Chaenotheca brachypoda (Ach.) Tibell

Syn.: Chaenotheca sulphurea (Retz.) Middelb. & Mattsson, Coniocybe brachypoda Ach., Coniocybe griseola Ach., Coniocybe sulphurea (Retz.) Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum, bark

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: on decorticated stumps of deciduous trees, more rarely on bark and siliceous rocks, in old humid forests, on faces slightly protected from rain.