LICHALP

Menegazzia subsimilis (H. Magn.) R. Sant.

Syn.: Menegazzia dissecta (Rass.) Hafellner, Menegazzia pertusa (Schaer.) Stein var. dissecta (Rass.) Rass., Menegazzia terebrata (Hoffm.) A. Massal. var. dissecta (Rass.) Poelt, Parmelia subsimilis H. Magn.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: on bark in humid beech-fir forests, often with M. terebrata; the material of M. terebrata from the Alps should be checked in search of this species.