LICHALP

Scoliciosporum curvatum Sérus.

Lichenised.

Substrate:

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 thin greenish thallus composed of small granules, extremely minute, hemispherical apothecia, 8-16-spored asci, and 1-septate ascospores with acute ends or lunulate; foliicolous in the understory of humid forests; in Central Europe mostly on needles of Abies and Picea, otherwise on leaves and green twigs of Buxus in very humid situations; widespread in Europe, but most common in its western parts.