LICHALP

Helocarpon crassipes Th. Fr.

Syn.: Lecidea crassipes (Th. Fr.) Nyl., Micarea crassipes (Th. Fr.) Coppins

Lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses, plant debris

Altitudinal distribution: subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: thallus composed of small granules dispersed in a pale hypothallus, encrusting bryophytes in arctic-alpine environments; widespread in Fennoscandia, presence in the Central European mountains uncertain, and records from the Alps in need of verification.