LICHALP

Bryoria motykana (Bystrek) Bystrek

Syn.: Alectoria motykana Bystrek

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: bark

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 with pendent, grey to greyish- brown thalli reacting Pd+ yellow but K- (psoromic acid), branches with pseudocyphellae, fissural soralia, and distinctly blackened apices; widespread in Europe from the boreal to the nemoral zone in mixed and coniferous forests, but not common; from the Alps there are so far a few scattered records.