LICHALP

Xanthomendoza huculica (S.Y. Kondr.) Diederich

Syn.: Oxneria huculica S.Y. Kondr., Xanthoria fallax auct. non (Hepp) Arnold

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

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 recently-described epiphytic species differing from X. fallax in the much larger lobes with numerous rhizines, the narrower spores with shorter septum, and in the ecology (epiphytic versus saxicolous). Most records of epiphytic X. fallax belong here.