LICHALP

Ainoa mooreana (Carroll) Lumbsch & I. Schmitt

Syn.: Biatora brujeriana (Schaer. ex D. Dietr.) Arnold, Biatora lopadioides Th. Fr., Biatora torellii Anzi, Lecidea brujeriana (Schaer. ex D. Dietr.) Leight., Lecidea lopadioides (Th. Fr.) Grummann, Lecidea mooreana Carroll, Lecidea oblita Bagl. & Carestia, Lecidea torellii (Anzi) Nyl., Trapelia mooreana (Carroll) P. James, Trapelia torellii (Anzi) Hertel

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks

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: a circumboreal-montane early coloniser of weathered siliceous rocks, also known from the Southern Hemisphere, mostly found on pebbles, or on large boulders near the soil surface in rather disturbed habitats (e.g. on track sides, in clearings of light forests, etc.), with optimum near treeline.