LICHALP

Cheiromycina flabelliformis B. Sutton

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, lignum

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 species with a crustose, epiphloeodic thallus and cushion-shaped sporodochia in which multicellular conidia develop, branching three-dimensionally, originating from conspicuous globose cells; on bark of mostly broad-leaved trees in moist forests; widespread in the Holarctic region; from the Alps there are only a few records at low to mid-elevations, but elsewhere the species reaches the treeline ecotone.