LICHALP

Thelenella muscorum (Fr.) Vain. var. muscorum

Syn.: Chromatochlamys muscicola (Ach. ex Nyl.) Trevis., Chromatochlamys muscorum (Fr.) H. Mayrhofer & Poelt, Microglaena lesdainii (Harm.) Tav., Microglaena leucothelioides (Vain.) Zahlbr., Microglaena macrospora B. de Lesd., Microglaena muscorum (Fr.) Th. Fr., Polyblastia muscorum (Fr.) Jatta, Verrucaria muscicola Ach. ex Nyl., Verrucaria muscorum Fr. nom.illeg., Weitenwebera muscorum (Fr.) Körb.

Lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses, plant debris, bark

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) 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 holarctic lichen found on moribund pleurocarpous mosses on rocks and soil, more rarely on the basal parts of old trunks, with optimum in the montane belt, whose generic placement is uncertain; widespread throughout the Alps.