LICHALP

Pilophorus cereolus (Ach.) Th. Fr

Syn.: Lichen cereolus Ach., Pilophorus robustus Th. Fr. var. cereolus (Ach.) Th. Fr., Stereocaulon cereolinum Ach.

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks

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: an arctic-alpine, probably incompletely circumpolar lichen found on siliceous rocks in moist-wet situations near treeline; all records from the Alps are historical.