LICHALP

Jamesiella anastomosans (P. James & Vězda) Lücking, Sérus. & Vězda

Syn.: Gyalideopsis anastomosans P. James & Vězda

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 filmy glaucous thalli provided with peculiar spine-like, isidiiform hyphophores, frequently sterile in Central Europe, rather regularly fertile in Western Europe, with biatorine, red-brown apothecia and muriform ascospores; on bark and stumps in moist forests; widespread in the Northern Hemisphere and also known from New Zealand; widespread also in the Alps, but probably still undercollected.