LICHALP

Bryoria smithii (Du Rietz) Brodo & D. Hawksw.

Syn.: Alectoria smithii Du Rietz

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, 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 temperate to boreal-montane species found on large, more or less shaded rock walls, more rarely on bark, especially on twigs of conifers in damp montane forests; widespread, but apparently rather rare in the Alps.