Cladonia glauca Flörke

Syn.: Cladonia cenotea (Ach.) Schaer. var. glauca (Flörke) Leight.
Lichenised.
Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), lignum
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, perhaps circumpolar lichen found on acid soil in open habitats; widespread throughout the Alps, but generally rare.
Austria: Vorarlberg; Tirol; Salzburg; Kärnten; Steiermark; Oberösterreich; Switzerland: Graubünden; Luzern; Vaud; France: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; Haute-Alpes; Alpes-Maritimes; Vaucluse; Var; Italy: Veneto; Trentino Alto Adige; Piemonte; Valle d'Aosta; Slovenia: Alpine and Pre-Alpine Slovenia;