LICHALP

Bryoria bicolor (Ehrh.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.

Syn.: Alectoria bicolor (Ehrh.) Nyl., Bryopogon bicolor (Ehrh.) Elenkin, Bryopogon jubatus (L.) Link var. bicolor (Ehrh.) Rabenh., Cornicularia bicolor (Ehrh.) Ach., Lichen bicolor Ehrh.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, living mosses, siliceous rocks

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 mainly boreal-montane, circumpolar lichen found on mossy trunks of old, more or less isolated trees in areas with frequent fog, sometimes on mossy rocks; widespread throughout the Alps, but perhaps declining.