LICHALP

Placynthiella oligotropha (J.R. Laundon) Coppins & P. James

Syn.: Lecidea oligotropha J.R. Laundon, Saccomorpha oligotropha (J.R. Laundon) Clauzade & Cl. Roux

Lichenised.

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

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a cool-temperate to boreal-montane, probably circumpolar lichen found on soil and turf, more rarely on weathering siliceous rocks, mostly in clearings of woodlands in upland areas; widespread throughout the Alps.