LICHALP

Epigloea medioincrassata (Grummann) Döbbeler

Syn.: Voralbergia medioincrassata Grummann

Non- or doubtfully lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) 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 8-spored asci and narrowly ellipsoid to fusiform, 3-septate ascospores (24-33 × 3.5-5 µm) with a filiform, gelatinous appendage at both ends; over algal colonies on moribund bryophytes and, more rarely, on lignum, with optimum near treeline, certainly overlooked and more widespread in the Alps.