LICHALP

Physconia muscigena (Ach.) Poelt var. muscigena

Syn.: Hagenia pulverulenta auct. var. muscigena (Ach.) Bagl. & Carestia, Parmelia muscigena Ach., Physcia muscigena (Ach.) Nyl., Physcia pulverulenta (Wahlenb.) Fürnr. var. muscigena (Ach.) Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil, acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), living mosses, plant debris

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: an arctic-alpine, circumpolar lichen found on mosses and plant debris in open situations, such as in grasslands and on mosses growing on isolated calcareous boulders; widespread and common throughout the Alps.