LICHALP

Polyblastia buerensis Zschacke

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: calciferous rocks

Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a species with a thin thallus and ascomata immersed in pits in the rock, 8-spored asci, and narrowly ellipsoid, submuriform ascospores resembling those of P. dermatodes but less regularly divided; on clayey limestone; rare in Central Europe at low elevations; in the Alps known from a few scattered records.