LICHALP

Parmeliella triptophylla (Ach.) Müll. Arg.

Syn.: Lecanora triptophylla (Ach.) Link, Lecidea microphylla (Lilj.) Ach. var. schraderi Schaer., Lecidea triptophylla Ach., Lecothecium corallinoides (Hoffm.) Körb., Pannaria lasiella Stirt., Pannaria triptophylla (Ach.) A. Massal., Parmeliella corallinoides (Hoffm.) Zahlbr.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, siliceous rocks, living mosses,

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) 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 widespread, cool-temperate to boreal-montane lichen found on old trees and upon epiphytic bryophytes in humid forests, sometimes also on mossy siliceous rocks, with a wide altitudinal range; widespread throughout the Alps.