LICHALP

Rinodina sophodes (Ach.) A. Massal.

Syn.: Berengeria sophodes (Ach.) Trevis., Dimelaena sophodes (Ach.) Norman, Gasparrinia sophodes (Ach.) Tornab., Lecanora sophodes (Ach.) Ach., Lichen sophodes Ach., Parmelia sophodes (Ach.) Ach., Rinodina sophodes (Ach.) A. Massal. var. lusitanica H. Magn.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, lignum

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a widespread temperate early coloniser of smooth bark, most common on twigs and branches, with a wide ecological amplitude and a correspondingly wide altitudinal range; widespread throughout the Alps.