Alectoria ochroleuca
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Alectoria ochroleuca is a shrub lichen from alpine locations. It is sometimes referred to as windbeard lichen and less commonly as pale yellow alectorie. Thespecific epithet ochroleuca is derived from the Greek word ochroleucos and means "pale yellowish, yellowish-white" (to ochros and leukos) and refers to the color of the bearing.
description
It is in Alectoria ochroleuca to a growing on the floor yellowish to yellowish green, branched Strauchflechte. With its upright to almost prostrate bed, it reaches heights of growth of 8 to 10 cm. The moderately branched branches are up to 1.5 mm thick. These are round petals, yellowish to greenish-yellow and often gray to blackish in color at the tips with spindle-shaped whitish pseudocyphelles. The apothecia are brown and are very rarely developed.
Occurrence
The lichen grows in wind-exposed grasslands and dwarf shrub heaths in the area of the tree line and above. It often forms characteristic lichens heaths with Cetraria or Flavocetraria species.
The distribution area includes the Arctic up to southern European high mountains. It is rare in the extra-alpine Central Europe and extremely endangered on low mountain peaks.
literature
- Volkmar Wirth , Ruprecht Düll : Color Atlas of Lichen and Moss. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3517-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7643-2390-6 (reprint ISBN 3-937872-16-7 ).
