Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.
Syn.: Lichen pulmonarius L., Lobaria pulmonacea (Ach.) Shirley, Sticta pulmonacea (Ach.) Ach., Sticta pulmonaria (L.) Biroli
Lichenised.
Substrate: bark, living mosses, rocks
Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)
Note: a mainly temperate, holarctic species found on bark, epiphytic and epilithic mosses, in humid forests, presently with optimum in the montane belt; widespread throughout the Alps, but probably declining.
Austria: Vorarlberg; Tirol; Salzburg; Kärnten; Steiermark; Oberösterreich; Niederösterreich (incl. Wien); Germany: Oberbayern; Schwaben; Switzerland: Bern; Fribourg; Glarus; Graubünden; Luzern; St. Gallen; Schwyz; Ticino; Uri; Unterwalden; Vaud; Valais; France: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; Haute-Alpes; Alpes-Maritimes; Drôme; Isère; Savoie; Haute-Savoie; Vaucluse; Var; Italy: Friuli; Veneto; Trentino Alto Adige; Lombardia; Piemonte; Valle d'Aosta; Liguria; Slovenia: Alpine and Pre-Alpine Slovenia; Trnovsky Gozd;