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Habitat: A group of trees midst of grass patches, N orientation, medium humid place, half shaded, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 435 m (1.400 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Subtratum: on bark of Fraxinus excelsior at breast height. - Comment: No bitter taste, KC- on soralen, thus not P. amara.
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Habitat: stony upland grassland, fully wind, sun and precipitations exposed, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 0-2 deg C, altitude 1.910 m (6.300 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: calcareous rock
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Slo.: ? - Habitat: Mixed wood, near a stream, humid and shaded place, protected from direct rain by tree canopies, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 630 m (2.100 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: Bark of a fallen trunk of Fagus sylvatica
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Syn.: Calicium abietinum f. glaucellum (Ach.) Erichsen, Calicium abietinum var. glaucellum (Ach.) Vain., Calicium lenticulare f. chlorodes (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Calicium lenticulare var. chlorodes (Nyl.) Erichsen, Calicium quercinum f. chlorodes Nyl., - Habitat: Mixed mountain forest, Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica dominant trees; bottom of an Alpine valley, locally almost flat terrain; alluvial, calcareous grpind; partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 4-6 deg C, elevations 1.040 m (3.400 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: decorticated, still standing truck of a dead Picea abies.Comment: Genus Calicium includes very unusually looking lichens. They have crustose thallus, which is sometimes immersed in the substratum or very thin, so it is many times hardly invisible. Contrary to this their apothecia are elevated above the thallus mostly with long, distinct stalk. Here 'distinct' mean distinct under a magnifying glass. They are very, very small, usually less than 1 mm tall and hence not easy to spot.Pictures most probably show species Calicium glaucellum. Size of the shiny black, stalked apothecia, obovoid to weakly bell-shaped apothecia, very thin, almost invisible grayish thallus, absence of pruina (minute whitish covering on some lichens), the ratio of sporocarp height to stalk diameter and substratum speak in favor of Calicium glaucellum. Quite some time I was unable to decide between two possible names: Calicium abietinum and Calicium glaucellum. Sporocarps seem to have too thin stalks compared to their height for Calicium abietinum. Also no pruina was seen. Finally, I found out that Index Fungorum considers both names as synonyms in spite of the fact that most of my literature considers both names as separate species. Obviously they must be quite variable. Obviously microscopy data would make this determination much more reliable.According to Ref.4 and Ref.5 the species has been found in Slovenia several times, also in East Julian Alps (Ref.7). Ref.:(1) F.S. Dobson, Lichens, The Richmonds Publishing Ca.LTD (2005), p 91.(2) C.W.Smith, et all, The lichens of Great Britain and Ireland, The British Lichen Society, (2009), p 243.(3) V. Wirth, Die Flechten Baden-Wrttembergs, Teil.1., Ulmer (1995), p 204.(4) Prgger et all. 'Alphabetical list of lichenized fungi for the six phytogeographical regions of Slovenia', http://members.chello.at/johannes.pruegger/uni/slovenia/ (accessed 9.1.2018)(5) Boletus Informaticus Database, Forestry Institute of Slovenia http://www.zdravgozd.si/bi_index.aspx (accessed 9.1.2018)(6) http://www.waysofenlichenment.net/lichens/Calicium/ (accessed 9.1.2018)(7) F. Bati, K. Primoi, B. Surina, T. Trot & H. Mayzhofer, Contributions to the lichen flora of Slovenia X. - Contributions to the lichen flora from the Slovenian Julian Alps, Herzogia 16, (2003): 143154
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Pleopsidium chlorophanum = yellow, Caloplaca trachyphylla = orange. Not completely confident of identification; I am not a lichenologist.
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Habitat: abandoned stony pasture, moderately southeast inclined mountain slope with some Picea abies and Corylus avellana bushes, overgrown calcareous, stony ground, however possibly somewhat acid; very shallow soil layer, more or less open place, but mostly in shade of high Picea abies trees,exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevations 590 m (1.950 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: stony ground, among low grasses and mosses. - Comment: Determined by habitus and habitat only. No chemistry tests done. This species is very variable according to literature. Usually published pictures show much less podetia squamules and less branched habitus. Hence I have doubts the determination is correct. On other side. Ref.:(1) shows very similar habitus. Also I was unable to find a better alternative with characteristically almost absent ground squamules and typical 'cups' of the podetia. - Ref.: (1) W. Rothmaler, Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Vol.1, Niedere Pflanzen, Elsevier, 3. Auflage (1994), p 604. (2) C.W. Smith, et all, The lichens of Great Britain and Ireland,The British Lichen Society (2009), p 329. (3) F.S. Dobson, Lichens, The Richmonds Publishing Ca. LTD (2005), p 140. (4) V. Wirth, Die Flechten Baden-Wrttembergs, Vol.1. Ulmer (1995), p 327.
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Slo.: ? - syn.: Collema cristatum (L.) Weber ex F.H. Wigg., Collema multifidum (Scop.) Rabenh - Habitat: steep mountain slope, south-southeast aspect, calcareous ground, open place, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 5-6 deg C, elevations 790 m (2.600 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: calcareous rock in a vertical, stony, manmade road scarp.Comment: Abundant large, reddish-brown, up to 5 mm in diameter apothecia, only sparsely present isidia (see picture 2 lower right) and typical substratum support the determination Lathagrium cristatum. Pictures were taken after a prolonged rainy period. Hence the thallus is waterlogged. Characteristically, the lobes of Lathagrium cristatum do not swale much as with most of other Collema species. The largest thallus had 18 cm in diameter.No chemical tests and microscopy have been done; therefore the determination remains to some extent questionable.Ref.:(1) C.W.Smith, et all, The lichens of Great Britain and Ireland,The British Lichen Society,(2009), p 351.(2) V. Wirth, Die Flechten Baden-Wrttembergs, Teil.1., Ulmer (1995), p 355.(3) F.S. Dobson, Lichens, The Richmonds Publishing Ca.LTD (2005), p 152.(4) I.M. Brodo, S.D. Sharnoff, S.Sharnoff, Lichens of North America, Yale Uni. Press (2001), p 284.(5) http://www.lichens.lastdragon.org/Collema_cristatum.html(6) http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/Collema/BBBB4229
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Slo.: ? - Habitat: Scree and rocks slope, SW exposed, dry, slightly over hanged W exposed side, partly shaded and rain protected, precipitations ~2.800 mm/year, air humidity medium, overage temperature 8-10 degC, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: limestone boulder
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Compilation of multiple photos taken at different points in time; taken both in field and in lab.
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