Micarea cinerea (Schaer.) Hedl. f. cinerea

Syn.: Bacidia cinerea (Schaer.) Trevis., Biatora delicatula Körb., Bilimbia cinerea (Schaer.) Körb., Bilimbia delicatula (Körb.) Körb., Lecidea cinerea Schaer., Lecidea sphaeroides (Dicks.) Röhl. var. albella Schaer.
Lichenised.
Substrate: bark, 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 probably circumboreal-montane species found on bark of deciduous and coniferous trees and on epiphytic bryophytes in humid, montane to subalpine forests, more rarely on lignum of fallen, decorticated trunks; widespread throughout the Alps.
Austria: Vorarlberg; Tirol; Salzburg; Kärnten; Steiermark; Oberösterreich; Niederösterreich (incl. Wien); Germany: Oberbayern; Switzerland: Bern; Graubünden; Luzern; St. Gallen; Schwyz; Ticino; Unterwalden; France: Haute-Savoie; Italy: Friuli; Trentino Alto Adige; Lombardia; Piemonte; Liguria; Slovenia: Alpine and Pre-Alpine Slovenia;