LICHALP

Pseudotryblidium neesii (Flot. ex Körb.) Rehm

Syn.: Dactylospora neesii (Flot. ex Körb.) Arnold, Leciographa neesii Flot. ex Körb., Peziza neesii Flot. ex Körb.

Non- or doubtfully lichenised.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a non-lichenised helotialean discomycete with erumpent, later sessile, black apothecia with a rusty-red tinge, and a rough prominent margin when dry, and ascospores initially non- to 1-septate and hyaline, but finally 3-septate and pale brown (15-18 × 6-8 µm); on bark of Abies, sometimes breaking through crustose lichen thalli (e.g. of Loxospora-species and Phlyctis argena) and then virtually lichenicolous; widespread in Europe, the distribution gaps in the Alps are probably due to undercollecting.