LICHALP

Scytinium intermedium (Arnold) Otálora, P.M. Jørg. & Wedin

Syn.: Leptogium intermedium (Arnold) Arnold, Leptogium minutissimum auct. non (Flörke) Fr., Leptogium minutissimum (Flörke) Fr. var. intermedium Arnold

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil, acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), calciferous rocks, siliceous rocks, 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: a mainly temperate species found on soil, occasionally on the mossy bases of ancient trunks, more rarely on calcareous rocks; widespread throughout the Alps.