Peltigera degenii Gyeln.
Syn.: Peltigera nitens (Anders) Gyeln., Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf var. nitens (Anders) Szatala, Peltigera virescens (J. Steiner) Gyeln.
Lichenised.
Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), calciferous soil, living mosses, plant debris
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 temperate to southern boreal species found on terricolous bryophytes, on soil rich in humus and on mossy rocks in forests, sometimes on bark in the basal parts of trunks, with optimum in the montane belt; widespread throughout the Alps.
Austria: Vorarlberg; Tirol; Salzburg; Kärnten; Steiermark; Oberösterreich; Niederösterreich (incl. Wien); Germany: Schwaben; Switzerland: Bern; Fribourg; Glarus; Graubünden; Luzern; St. Gallen; Schwyz; Uri; Unterwalden; Vaud; Valais; France: Haute-Alpes; Isère; Savoie; Haute-Savoie; Vaucluse; Italy: Friuli; Veneto; Trentino Alto Adige; Lombardia; Piemonte; Liguria; Slovenia: Alpine and Pre-Alpine Slovenia; Trnovsky Gozd;
