Scytinium plicatile (Ach.) Otálora, P.M. Jørg. & Wedin
Syn.: Collema hydrocharum (Ach.) Ach., Collema plicatile (Ach.) Nyl., ?Collema subplicatile Nyl., Collemodium plicatile (Ach.) Nyl., Leptogium cataclystum (Körb.) Harm., Leptogium cataclystum (Körb.) Harm. var. fluctuans (Kremp.) Zahlbr., Leptogium hydrocharum (Ach.) Zahlbr., Leptogium plicatile (Ach.) Leight., Lichen plicatilis Ach.
Lichenised.
Substrate: calciferous rocks, living mosses, calciferous soil
Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)
Note: a mainly mild-temperate to Mediterranean lichen found on steeply inclined, but not fully sun-exposed seepage tracks of more or less calcareous rocks; widespread throughout the Alps.
Austria: Vorarlberg; Tirol; Salzburg; Kärnten; Steiermark; Oberösterreich; Niederösterreich (incl. Wien); Germany: Oberbayern; Schwaben; Switzerland: Bern; Graubünden; Luzern; St. Gallen; Uri; Vaud; Valais; France: Haute-Alpes; Alpes-Maritimes; Isère; Savoie; Haute-Savoie; Vaucluse; Var; Italy: Friuli; Veneto; Trentino Alto Adige; Lombardia; Piemonte; Valle d'Aosta; Liguria; Slovenia: Alpine and Pre-Alpine Slovenia; Trnovsky Gozd;