LICHALP

Graphis pulverulenta (Pers.) Ach.

Syn.: Graphis abietina (Schaer.) Malbr., Graphis cerasi (Pers.) Ach., Graphis diffracta Turner, Graphis litterella (Ach.) Röhl., Graphis scripta (L.) Ach. var. abietina (Schaer.) Rabenh., Graphis scripta (L.) Ach. var. cerasi (Pers.) Ach., Graphis scripta (L.) Ach. var. pulverulenta (Pers.) Ach., Graphis scripta (L.) Ach. var. serpentina (Ach.) G. Mey., Graphis serpentina (Ach.) Ach., Graphis subtilis (Pers.) Röhl., Opegrapha abietina (Schaer.) Malbr., Opegrapha cerasi Pers., Opegrapha pulverulenta Pers., Opegrapha serpentina (Ach.) Schrad.

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

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 taxon of the G. scripta-group, characterised by apothecia with mostly acute ends and widely exposed, white- to grey-pruinose discs, found on the bark of broad-leaved trees in different forest types; for a long time not distinguished and distributional data therefore likely to be incomplete, but common in the Alps. See also note on G. scripta.