LICHALP

Cladonia sulphurina (Michx.) Fr.

Syn.: Cladonia deformis (L.) Hoffm. var. gonecha (Ach.) Arnold, Cladonia gonecha (Ach.) Asahina, Scyphophorus sulphurinus Michx.

Lichenised.

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

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) 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 circumboreal-subarctic lichen found on organic substrata in cold-shaded situations, most common on rotting wood, e.g. on stumps and decaying fallen trunks; widespread throughout the Alps.