LICHALP

Chaenothecopsis savonica (Räsänen) Tibell

Syn.: Mycocalicium savonicum Räsänen

Non- or doubtfully lichenised.

Substrate: ,

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: a species resembling Ch. pusilla: stalk and hypothecium often with a greenish tinge, the former with periclinally arranged hyphae, ascospores pale, simple, with rounded ends; lichenicolous on the thallus of Chaenotheca-species or on algal colonies, usually on lignum; widespread from the boreal to the temperate zone in the Holarctic region, also recorded from the Southern Hemisphere; with a few scattered records from the Alps, where it is probably more widespread, but certainly not common.