LICHALP

Polyblastia moravica Zschacke

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks,

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 a thin thallus, semi-immersed ascomata with a pigmented wall and a thick involucrellum in the upper half, and ellipsoid ascospores with 3 transversal septa and a single, incomplete longitudinal septum; on long-time moist schists in Central Europe, with a few records from the Eastern Alps (Austria).