LICHALP

Peltigera polydactylon (Neck.) Hoffm.

Syn.: Lichen caninus L. var. polydactylon (Neck.) Lightf., Lichen polydactylus Neck., Peltidea polydactyla (Neck.) Ach., Peltigera canina (L.) Willd. var. polydactyla (Neck.) Branth. & Rostr., Peltigera rufescens (Weiss) Humb. var. polydactyla (Neck.) Torss.

Lichenised.

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

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: an ecologically wide-ranging species of both mineral and organic, often base-rich soil, and on basal parts of mossy trunks and stumps in open forests, with optimum in the montane belt; widespread throughout the Alps.