LICHALP

Bryoria tenuis (E. Dahl) Brodo & D. Hawksw.

Syn.: Alectoria tenuis E. Dahl

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

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

Note: a species described from Greenland, with erect to decumbent thalli with blackened bases and at least some perpendicular lateral spines, therefore recalling B. bicolor (but lacking the third-order perpendicular branches of that species); Austrian specimens - despite their mention in one of the major genus monographs - are in urgent need of critical revision.