LICHALP

Mycoblastus affinis (Schaer.) T. Schauer

Syn.: Lecidea affinis Schaer., Mycoblastus alpinus (Fr.) Th. Fr. ex Hellb., Mycoblastus melinus (Kremp. ex Nyl.) Hellb., Mycoblastus sanguinarius (L.) Norman var. alpinus (Fr.) Stein

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, lignum, rocks

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: an incompletely circumboreal-montane species found on old conifers, especially Abies and Picea, in open, humid, montane to subalpine woodlands, more rarely on lignum or siliceous rocks; perhaps more widespread in the Alps, but generally not common.