LICHALP

Agonimia globulifera M. Brand & Diederich

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a species growing on soil, plant debris and mosses in dry calcareous grasslands, mostly below the subalpine belt. The sterile, glossy black globules are diagnostic, while ascomata are rare and dull black; the total distribution is poorly known.