LICHALP

Japewia subaurifera Muhr & Tønsberg

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 usually sterile species with a greenish to brown thallus, with soralia at first punctiform and convex, but later often confluent, outer soredia brownish, inner soredia yellowish green, apothecia brown and biatorine, usually less convex than those of J. tornoensis; on bark of both broad-leaved and coniferous trees in moist habitats; widespread in the Holarctic region, with a few scattered records from the Alps.