LICHALP

Cladonia crispata (Ach.) Flot. var. cetrariiformis (Delise) Vain.

Syn.: Cladonia crispata (Ach.) Flot. var. gracilescens (Rabenh.) Vain.

Lichenised.

Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) 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: differing from the type variety in the pointed tips of the very narrow, tube-like funnels, confusable with C. subfurcata with glossy esquamulose podetia with melanotic dying bases; on acid soil; common in Atlantic Europe; in the Alps only known from the treeline ecotone upwards, but not common, and not always distinguished from the typical variety.