LICHALP

Acolium inquinans (Sm.) A. Massal.

Syn.: Acolium neesii (Flot.) Körb., Acolium subsimile (Nyl.) Arnold, Acolium tympanellum (Ach.) Gray, Calicium cembrinum Ach., Calicium inquinans (Sm.) Schaer., Calicium neesii Flot., Calicium tympanellum Ach., Cyphelium cembrinum (Ach.) Ach., Cyphelium inquinans (Sm.) Trevis., Cyphelium inquinans (Sm.) Trevis. var. ollare (Ach.) Trevis., Cyphelium neesii (Flot.) Trevis., Cyphelium ollare Ach., Cyphelium pileatum Ach., Cyphelium subsimile (Nyl.) Trevis., Cyphelium tympanellum (Ach.) Ach., Lichen inquinans Sm., Trachylia inquinans (Sm.) Rabenh., Trachylia neesii (Flot.) Rabenh., Trachylia subsimilis Nyl., Trachylia tympanella (Ach.) Fr.

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum, bark

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 temperate to southern boreal-montane, circumpolar lichen found on old conifer stumps, more rarely on lignum of broad-leaved deciduous trees (especially Quercus and Castanea), and on wooden fence-posts, with optimum in upland areas.