LICHALP

Calicium pinastri Tibell

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, lignum

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a species with a thin, grey thallus, short-stalked, minute, epruinose apothecia, cylindrical asci, and ascospores with irregular cracks, found on the bark of conifers (most often Pinus sylvestris); recently-described and still with a few records from the Alps, but probably more widespread.