LICHALP

Vezdaea rheocarpa Poelt & Döbbeler

Lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses,

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 species with a thallus composed of goniocysts provided with long hyphal spines, translucent to grey, flat apothecia, branched interascal filaments (mostly shorter than the asci), and hyaline, simple, ellipsoid ascospores (to c. 20 µm long) with a finally verrucose perispore; on bryophytes and plant debris, mostly in deciduous forests; widespread in the Northern Hemisphere but rarely collected, probably due to its minute size, with scattered records from the Alps.