LICHALP

Cladonia convoluta (Lam.) Anders

Syn.: Cladonia endiviifolia (Dicks.) Fr., Cladonia foliacea (Huds.) Willd. subsp. convoluta (Lam.) Clauzade & Cl. Roux, Cladonia foliacea (Huds.) Willd. subsp. endiviifolia (Dicks.) Boistel, Cladonia foliacea (Huds.) Willd. var. convoluta (Lam.) Vain., Cladonia foliacea (Huds.) Willd. var. endiviifolia (Dicks.) Schaer., Lichen convolutus Lam.

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: calciferous soil

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a mild-temperate lichen found on calcareous mineral soil in dry grasslands, or in intradunal depressions, also occurring in dry-continental valleys of the Alps. A recent revision of the C. foliacea-C. convoluta-complex showed that neither morphological characters nor phylogenetic analyses gave evidence to delimit two taxa; however, since there are some ecological and distributional differences, we prefer to provisionally treat here the calcicolous forms separately.