LICHALP

Cladonia incrassata Flörke

Syn.: Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd. var. incrassata (Flörke) Laurer

Lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses, plant debris

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a cool-temperate to boreal-montane species with a fragmented circumpolar range, found on peaty and humus-rich soil and on strongly weathered lignum; with a few scattered records from the Alps, where it is evidently rare.