LICHALP

Thelocarpon strasseri Zahlbr.

Syn.: Ahlesia strasseri (Zahlbr.) Keissl.

Non- or doubtfully lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: lignum

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a species developing minute apothecia; the distinction from Th. lichenicola (type lichenicolous on Baeomyces rufus and asci - according to the protologue - 16-spored) may be not justified, and this taxon is not generally accepted as a separate species, a problem which, however, needs further study.