LICHALP

Protoparmelia ochrococca (Nyl.) P.M. Jørg., Rambold & Hertel

Syn.: Lecidea ochrococca Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, lignum

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus)

Note: a species with an ochraceous to chestnut brown thallus consisting of rounded to subglobose areoles, apothecia with red-brown discs, and minute, oblong to fusiform ascospores (to 10 µm long); a mainly western, epiphytic to lignicolous species, in the Alps only reported from South Tyrol.