LICHALP

Scytinium pulvinatum (Hoffm.) Otálora, P.M. Jørg. & Wedin

Syn.: Collema pulvinatum Hoffm., Leptogium lacerum (Retz.) Gray var. pulvinatum (Hoffm.) Zahlbr., Leptogium lichenoides (L.) Zahlbr. var. pulvinatum (Hoffm.) Zahlbr., Leptogium pulvinatum (Hoffm.) Cromb.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks, siliceous rocks, living mosses,

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: this species occurs among mosses at the base of trees or occasionally directly over bark, but also on walls, rocks or soil in open habitats over acrocarpous mosses, from the coast to the mountains. Though there is molecular evidence that this should be accepted as a species, it is hard to distinguish from extreme forms of S. lichenoides.