LICHALP

Porina sudetica (Körb.) Lettau

Syn.: Sagedia sudetica (Körb.) Körb., Verrucaria sudetica Körb.

Lichenised.

Substrate: plant debris, living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) to the 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 with an effuse, granulose thallus, red-brown perithecia, and fusiform, up to 5-septate ascospores which are to c. 40 µm long; encrusting saxicolous bryophytes (Andreaea) and plant debris in the subalpine and alpine belts; rare in the Central European mountains, with a few records from the Eastern Alps (Austria).