LICHALP

Cladonia gracilis (L.) Willd. subsp. turbinata (Ach.) Ahti

Syn.: Cladonia gracilis (L.) Willd. var. dilatata auct., Cladonia pachyscypha Sandst. ex Zahlbr., Lichen turbinatus Ach.

Lichenised.

Substrate:

Altitudinal distribution: subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a taxon with short podetia, all with scyphi (subulate podetia lacking); on the forest floor, but also on rotten wood; common in the middle boreal zone, in the Alps in coniferous forests of the upper montane belt (not above treeline); there are several scattered records, but infraspecific taxa of the C. gracilis-group were not always distinguished. According to Ahti (see Nimis 2016), however, the presence of C. gracilis in the Alps is dubious, and most records could prove to refer to C. macroceras