LICHALP

Solorina spongiosa (Ach.) Anzi

Syn.: Collema spongiosum Ach., Solorina saccata (L.) Ach. var. limbata (Sommerf.) Torss., Solorina saccata (L.) Ach. var. spongiosa (Ach.) Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), calciferous soil

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: an arctic-alpine, circumpolar lichen found on moist calciferous soil; this is the morph with a dominant cyanobiont in the S. saccata-complex.