LICHALP

Cladonia polydactyla (Flörke) Spreng.

Syn.: Cenomyce polydactyla Flörke, Cladonia bouillenei P.A. Duvign., Cladonia brebissonii (Delise) Parrique subsp. monguillonii (Harm.) Choisy, Cladonia digitata (L.) Hoffm. var. deminuta Mong., Cladonia flabelliformis Vain., Cladonia monguillonii Harm.

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum, bark,

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a cool-temperate to boreal-montane, circumpolar lichen found on organic soil and rotting wood in forests, more rarely on bark, in the basal parts of old trunks; widespread throughout the Alps.