Graphis elegans (Borrer ex Sm.) Ach.

Graphis elegans (Borrer ex Sm.) Ach.

Syn.: Aulacographa elegans (Borrer ex Sm.) Leight., Graphis neglecta Erichsen, Graphis petrina Nyl., Graphis ramificans Nyl., Graphis sulcata (Pers.) A. Massal., Opegrapha elegans Borrer ex Sm., Phaeographis ramificans (Nyl.) Lettau

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a mild-temperate to humid subtropical species found on smooth bark, mainly of Ilex in warm-humid woodlands; very rare, and probably declining in the Alps.

Austria: Vorarlberg; Oberösterreich; Switzerland: Graubünden; Uri; France: Isère; Italy: Friuli; Trentino Alto Adige; Lombardia; Piemonte;

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