LICHALP

Fuscopannaria confusa (P.M. Jørg.) P.M. Jørg.

Syn.: Pannaria confusa P.M. Jørg.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, siliceous rocks

Altitudinal distribution: alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a species resembling F. mediterranea, but squamules with a plane surface and less than 2 mm long, with marginal, coarsely granular soralia; on branches of various trees and shrubs near the ground, but also on rocks in very humid places, like in the spray zone of waterfalls; a rare European species with a boreal to temperate-high montane distribution pattern; in the Alps known from two localities only.