LICHALP

Lecidea globulispora Nyl.

Syn.: Biatora antiloga (Stirt.) Walt. Watson, Lecidea antiloga Stirt., Lecidea infralapponica Vain., Lecidella antiloga (Stirt.) M. Choisy

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum

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 mainly cool-temperate to boreal-montane lichen also known from the Southern Hemisphere found on hard, exposed lignum, more rarely on conifer bark; to be looked for further in the Alps. The generic position of this species, related to the North American L. paddensis (Tuck.) Zahlbr., is not clear.