LICHALP

Anaptychia bryorum Poelt

Syn.: Anaptychia fusca (Huds.) Vain. var. stippaea auct., Anaptychia stippaea auct.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil, , plant debris

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: an arctic-alpine to boreal-montane, probably circumpolar species found amongst mosses and moribund plants over base-rich siliceous substrata; widespread almost throughout the Alps.