LICHALP

Micarea hylocomii Poelt & Döbbeler

Lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a species with an inconspicuous thallus, minute, blackish apothecia, and narrowly ellipsoid to rod-shaped, 1-septate, often slightly curved ascospores; on bleached leaflets of moribund to dead Hylocomium splendens in montane coniferous forests; overall distribution boreal-montane; in the Alps known from a few localities only.