LICHALP

Lecidea miscella Ach. non Sommerf.

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) 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 with a thick, granular-verrucose, whitish thallus, small, black, convex, immarginate apothecia with a brown hypothecium, conglutinated paraphyses, and ellipsoid to oblong ascospores, based on a type from Sweden; on soil and plant remains at high elevations, with a few records only from the Alps.