LICHALP

Lecanora epibryon (Ach.) Ach. var. bryopsora Doppelb. & Poelt

Syn.: Lecanora bryopsora (Doppelb. & Poelt) Hafellner & Türk

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: living mosses, plant debris

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: on mosses and plant debris on calcareous substrata; certainly more widespread in the Alps, but difficult to recognise, being often sterile. Molecular data suggest that this is just a sorediate morph of L. epibryon.