LICHALP

Scytinium imbricatum (P.M. Jørg.) Otálora, P.M. Jørg. & Wedin

Syn.: Leptogium imbricatum P.M. Jørg.

Lichenised.

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

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) 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: on more or less calciferous ground in alpine grasslands; perhaps more widespread in the Alps, but formerly filed under pulvinate forms of S. gelatinosum and S. lichenoides.