LICHALP

Carbonea assimilis (Hampe ex Körb.) Hafellner & Hertel

Syn.: Lecidea assimilis (Hampe ex Körb.) Th. Fr., Lecidella assimilis Hampe ex Körb., Psora assimilis (Hampe ex Körb.) Zahlbr.

Lichenised.

Substrate:

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) 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 species with a thallus of minute pale brown glossy areoles which are diagnostic, and Carbonea-apothecia; on exposed, inclined faces of siliceous rocks, parasitic on other crustose lichens (e.g. species of Aspicilia, Lecanora, Lecidea, Tephromela); widespread but not common, perhaps regionally still overlooked.