LICHALP

Bryoria capillaris (Ach.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.

Syn.: Alectoria cana (Ach.) Leight., Alectoria capillaris (Ach.) Cromb., Alectoria implexa auct., Alectoria setacea (Ach.) Motyka, Bryopogon canum (Ach.) M. Choisy, Bryopogon capillaris (Ach.) Bystrek, Bryoria setacea (Ach.) Brodo & D. Hawksw., Parmelia jubata (L.) Ach. var. capillaris Ach.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, 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 subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a cool-temperate to boreal-montane, circumpolar lichen, with optimum in humid Fagus-Abies forests, mostly on twigs, but also on boles of isolated trees in areas with frequent fog; widespread and still locally common throughout the Alps, but perhaps declining.