LICHALP

Scytinium lichenoides (L.) Otálora, P.M. Jørg. & Wedin

Syn.: Collema atrocaeruleum (Schaer.) Rabenh., Collema lacerum (Retz.) DC., Leptogium atrocaeruleum (Schaer.) A. Massal., Leptogium lacerum (Retz.) Gray, Leptogium lichenoides (L.) Zahlbr., Leptogium lophaeum (Ach.) Cromb., Lichen tremelloides Weiss, Tremella lichenoides L.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks, living mosses, , plant debris, bark

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a widespread holarctic lichen mostly found on soil and amongst mosses in dry grasslands, more rarely on basal parts of trunks. Many records could refer to S. pulvinatum; widespread and common throughout the Alps.