LICHALP

Cladonia botrytes (K.G. Hagen) Willd.

Syn.: Lichen botrytes K.G. Hagen

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum,

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 circumpolar, boreal-montane lichen found on decaying wood, mostly on horizontal faces of stumps and fallen trunks, especially of conifers, more rarely on decaying bark; widespread in the Alps, but generally not common.