LICHALP

Peltigera collina (Ach.) Schrad.

Syn.: Lichen collinus Ach., Peltidea collina (Ach.) Röhl., Peltigera limbata Delise ex Hepp, Peltigera molesta Delise ex Duby, Peltigera perfida Gyeln., Peltigera propagulifera (Flot. ex Körb.) Stein, Peltigera scutata (Dicks.) Duby, Peltigera sibirica Gyeln., Peltigera subscutata Gyeln.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, living mosses, siliceous rocks,

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a typical Lobarion-species found on the mossy bark of old deciduous trees in humid, open forests, sometimes on epilithic mosses, with optimum in the montane belt; widespread throughout the Alps, but generally not very common, and perhaps declining.