LICHALP

Candelariella plumbea Poelt & Vězda

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks, intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists)

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: an arctic-alpine lichen found on dolomitic rocks wetted by rain in exposed habitats, often developing along small cracks; probably more widespread in the Alps.