LICHALP

Biatora vacciniicola (Tønsberg) Printzen

Syn.: Lecidea vacciniicola Tønsberg

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

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 species with a sorediate, often sterile, partly endophloeodic thallus and confluent soralia reacting C+ red; on bark of various trees, mostly near the base and on branches of dwarf shrubs, often with B. subduplex; from the Alps there are only a few scattered records.