LICHALP

Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.

Syn.: Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. var. dendroides (Flörke) Müll. Arg., Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. var. longipes (Flörke) Rabenh., Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. var. major (K.G. Hagen) H. Magn., Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. var. minor (K.G. Hagen) H. Magn., Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. var. prolifera (Retz.) A. Massal., Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. var. tenuipes (Delise) H. Olivier, Cladonia major (K.G. Hagen) Sandst., Cladonia minor (K.G. Hagen) Szatala, Lichen fimbriatus L.

Lichenised.

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

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) 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 temperate to arctic-alpine, holarctic species found on rotten wood, soil, at the base of trunks, with a wide ecological range and a correspondingly wide altitudinal range; widespread and common throughout the Alps.