LICHALP

Xylographa parallela (Ach. : Fr.) Fr.

Syn.: Hysterium abietinum Pers., Lichen parallelus Ach.:Fr., Xylographa abietina (Pers.) Zahlbr., Xylographa incerta A. Massal., Xylographa laricicola Nyl., Xylographa minutula Körb., Xylographa parallela (Ach.:Fr.) Fr. var. sessitana Bagl., Xylographa scaphoidea Stirt.

Lichenised.

Substrate: 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 cool-temperate to boreal-montane, circumpolar species found on hard wood, on poles, fences and on flanks of decorticated boles, especially of conifers; widespread throughout the Alps.