LICHALP

Caloplaca insularis Poelt

Lichenised.

Substrate: ,

Altitudinal range: from the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: on calcareous schists, parasitic on Aspicilia candida and A. polychroma; certainly more widespread in the Alps.