LICHALP

Endocarpon adsurgens Vain.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil

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 recalling E. adscendens in the polyphyllous thallus of adscending squamules (to 2 mm across) with a dull brown upper side and a blackish lower side, attached by a few rhizines, the hymenial algal cells globose; on soil layers over calcareous rocks, based on a type from Finland, but widespread in Europe; from the Alps there are some scattered records, but the species is rather rare.