LICHALP

Bacidia illudens (Nyl.) Lynge

Syn.: Lecidea illudens Nyl.

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), calciferous soil, living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a species with apothecial margins mostly covered with a bluish-grey pruina, and 5-7-septate, acicular ascospores; on decaying bryophytes; based on a type from Finland, with a few scattered records from the Alps.