LICHALP

Lecanactis abietina (Ach.) Körb.

Syn.: Cyphelium incrustans Ach., Lecanactis illecebrosa (Dufour) Fr. var. megaspora G. Merr., Lecanactis megaspora (G. Merr.) Brodo, Lecidea abietina (Ach.) Ach., Lichen abietinus Ach., Pyrenotea leucocephala (Ach.) Fr., Pyrenula leucocephala Ach., Schismatomma abietinum (Ach.) A. Massal. non (Humb.) Almq.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a cool-temperate lichen, mostly found in mixed forests with Abies, on dry undersides of trunks and old branches, in crevices of the bark, much more rarely on old Quercus; widespread throughout the Alps, but generally not very common.