LICHALP

Ramalina thrausta (Ach.) Nyl.

Syn.: Alectoria crinalis Ach., Alectoria sarmentosa (Ach.) Ach. var. crinalis (Ach.) H. Olivier, Alectoria thrausta Ach., Bryopogon ochroleucus (Hoffm.) Link var. crinalis (Ach.) Rabenh., Bryopogon sarmentosum (Ach.) Link var. crinalis (Ach.) Körb., Ramalina crinalis (Ach.) Gyeln.

Lichenised.

Substrate: 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 cool-temperate to southern boreal lichen found on branches and twigs of conifers and deciduous trees in montane forests with frequent fog, occasionally lignicolous and saxicolous; widespread but rare and probably declining throughout the Alps.