LICHALP

Chaenotheca sphaerocephala Nádv.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

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 species with a minutely granular, whitish thallus and apothecia with globose, epruinose capitula virtually lacking an exciple, based on a lignicolous type from Chile; ecology still poorly known; recently reported on bark from montane forests in the Central Alps.