Boreal felt lichen  (Erioderma pedicellatum)

Range

The boreal felt lichen was formerly known from Norway, Sweden, and Canada (a boreal population on New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and an Atlantic population on Newfoundland) (1) (2) (4). Today, the species is thought to be restricted to two disjunct populations: the boreal population on Newfoundland, and a vastly depleted Atlantic population on Nova Scotia (1) (2).

Habitat

The remaining populations are found in cool, moist, old-growth coniferous forest, and grow predominately on the trunks of balsam fir (Abies balsamea). In Europe, it grew in temperate forest, mainly on the twigs of Norway spruce (Pecea abies) (1).

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