LICHALP

Thelopsis lojkana (Poetsch ex Arnold) Nyl.

Syn.: Sagedia lojkana Poetsch ex Arnold, Thelopsis tholoides Lettau

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks, intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists),

Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a species with smooth ascomata which are blackish brown in the upper half, immersed at first and later protruding, and 3-septate, halonate ascospores (to 25 µm long), found on vertical to overhanging faces of limestone in the shade of montane forests; rare in the Central European mountains, with a few scattered records from the Alps.