LICHALP

Phaeophyscia cernohorskyi (Nádv.) Essl.

Syn.: Phaeophyscia strigosa (Poelt & Buschardt) N.S. Golubk., Physcia cernohorskyi Nádv., Physcia hirsuta Mereschk. var. echinella Poelt, Physcia strigosa Poelt & Buschardt

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks, siliceous rocks, living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a widespread, often misunderstood species, chiefly epilithic in the northern part of its range, but found on a wide variety of substrata in the southern part, with optimum in dry-warm areas. The relationships with Ph. hirsuta await further study: the latter species is rather frequent in the submediterranean belt, whereas Ph. cernohorskyi is common and abundant only in dry-warm areas, such as in the dry valleys of the Alps.