LICHALP

Lecanora epibryon (Ach.) Ach. var. epibryon

Syn.: Lecanora subfusca (L.) Ach. var. hypnorum (Wulfen) Schaer., Lichen epibryon Ach.

Lichenised.

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: a circumpolar, arctic-alpine species found on mosses and plant debris in open calcareous grasslands and alpine tundras, often on ridges in Carex firma stands; common throughout the Alps near and above treeline.