LICHALP

Thelenella vezdae (H. Mayrhofer & Poelt) Coppins & Fryday

Syn.: Chromatochlamys vezdae H. Mayrhofer & Poelt

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: an easily overlooked species characterised by minute perithecia with a hyaline wall and submuriform ascospores, whose generic placement is uncertain; on soft decaying wood, occasionally spreading to lignicolous bryophytes in various forest types, with optimum at low to mid-elevations; so far known from Central Europe only, most records being from the Alps, where it was reported from a few scattered localities.