LICHALP

Lecidea plebeja Nyl.

Syn.: Lecidea enalliza Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, lignum

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: a boreal to temperate-montane species with an indistinct to minutely verrucose thallus and usually small, black apothecia with thin margins, a brown hypothecium, and small, ovoid ascospores, based on a type from Finland; on wood and bark of conifers (Picea); from the Alps there are a few records only.