LICHALP

Vezdaea stipitata Poelt & Döbbeler

Lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses, parasitic on other lichens, ,

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a species resembling V. leprosa but lacking goniocysts, with a thallus forming an indistinct granular layer, slightly brownish, stipitate apothecia (to c. 0.2 mm high and wide) recalling those of a minute calicioid lichen, the stipe (to c. 80 µm in diam.) composed of subparallel hyphae, scarce and indistinct interascal filaments, and hyaline, obovoid, 1-septate ascospores (to c. 15 µm long) with slightly unequal cells.