Stereocaulon glareosum (Savicz) H. Magn. var. brachyphylloides I.M. Lamb
Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.
Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata)
Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) 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 terricolous taxon differing from the type variety in the granular, verrucose to lobate-verrucose phyllocladia, with atranorin and lobaric acid as in the type variety, based on a type from arctic Alaska; the few records from the Eastern Alps need verification.
