LICHALP

Lecanora pseudosarcopidoides M. Brand & van den Boom

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a recently-described lignicolous species found on rotting trunks and wood of conifers, mainly in the subalpine belt, in species-poor stands, almost always associated with Parmeliopsis ambigua. It is superficially similar to L. saligna, differing in the form of the conidia and in other minor morphological characters, and is certainly much more widespread in the Alps.