LICHALP

Candelariella granuliformis M. Westb.

Lichenised.

Substrate:

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 rarely fertile species of the C. vitellina-group with a thallus composed of granules breaking down into minute blastidia, based on a type from Northern Canada; on soil or encrusting bryophytes or plant debris; the total distribution is arctic-alpine, and in the Alps it is so far known from a few localities.