LICHALP

Lecidoma demissum (Rutstr.) Gotth. Schneid. & Hertel

Syn.: Biatora atrorufa (Dicks.) Fr., Biatora demissa (Rutstr.) Fr., Lecidea atrorufa (Dicks.) Ach., Lecidea demissa (Rutstr.) Ach., Lepidoma demissum (Rutstr.) M. Choisy, Lichen demissus Rutstr., Psora atrorufa (Dicks.) Hook., Psora demissa (Rutstr.) Stein

Lichenised.

Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), calciferous soil

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a circumpolar, arctic-alpine lichen found on soil, rarely on siliceous rocks, in clearings of alpine grasslands with a long snow cover.