LICHALP

Phylliscum demangeonii (Moug. & Mont.) Nyl.

Syn.: Collema demangeonii Moug. & Mont., Phylliscum endocarpoides Nyl., Phylliscum silesiacum Stein

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a cool-temperate to boreal-montane, probably circumpolar lichen found on steeply inclined seepage tracks of siliceous rocks, mostly in upland areas; probably more widespread in the Alps.