LICHALP

Epigloea renitens (Grummann) Döbbeler

Syn.: Vorarlbergia renitens Grummann

Non- or doubtfully lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) 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 1-septate ascospores tapering at one end (11.5-16 × 4.5-5.5 µm), lacking appendages; parasitic on algal colonies; in the study area so far only reported from the Eastern Alps (Austria).