LICHALP

Lepraria umbricola Tønsberg

Lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses, bark

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a warm-temperate species found on sheltered siliceous rocks and mosses, sometimes on the basal parts of old trunks and on shaded sandy soil, with a few records from the Eastern Alps (Austria).