LICHALP

Hymenelia haematina (Körb.) Lutzoni

Syn.: Aspicilia haematina Körb., Ionaspis haematina (Körb.) Th. Fr.

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: metal-rich siliceous rocks

Altitudinal distribution: subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a silicicolous species with a brown-red thallus, black, urceolate, immarginate apothecia, and subglobose ascospores of c. 10 µm in diam.; ecology and distribution are insufficiently known; in the study area only reported from a few localities of the Eastern Alps (Austria).