LICHALP

Puttea exsequens (Nyl) Printzen & Davydov

Syn.: Lecidea exsequens Nyl., Lecidea gibberosa sensu Th. Fr. non Ach.

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum

Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a species with a thin to endosubstratic, whitish thallus and ochraceous to red-brown apothecia with concolorous, hardly prominent margins, the exciple of strongly gelatinised, narrowly radiating hyphae, asci with an amyloid tube, and ellipsoid, simple ascospores; typically on wood, widespread in Eurasia, but rarely collected, with a single record from the Eastern Alps of Slovenia (locality erroneously assigned to Austria), but likely to be still overlooked elsewhere (perhaps misidentified as a Biatora-species).