LICHALP

Chaenotheca subroscida (Eitner) Zahlbr.

Syn.: Cyphelium subroscidum Eitner

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, grey thallus and apothecia with a greenish-yellow pruina on the exciple and the upper part of the stalks (closely related to C. phaeocephala); usually on bark of coniferous trees (Picea, Abies) in rather moist montane forests; widespread in the Alps, but rare.