LICHALP

Bryoria fuscidula (Arnold) Bystrek

Syn.: Alectoria cana (Ach.) Leight. f. fuscidula Arnold, Alectoria fuscidula (Arnold) Vain., Alectoria implexa (Hoffm.) Röhl. var. fuscidula (Arnold) Motyka

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a species resembling B. implexa in the pendent, cespitose, brown thalli, but branches with fissural soralia and distinctly blackened apices and thallus K+ yellow soon turning to red; in montane forests, only recorded from the Eastern Alps (Italy).