LICHALP

Farnoldia hypocrita (A. Massal.) Fröberg var. hypocrita

Syn.: Biatora emergens Müll. Arg., Haplocarpon lithospersum (Zahlbr.) M. Choisy, Lecidea emergens Flot. nom.illeg., Lecidea hypocrita A. Massal., Lecidea jurana Schaer. var. emergens (Müll. Arg.) Boistel, Lecidea lithospersa Zahlbr., Lecidea lithygra sensu Fr.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a taxon with a partially to entirely endolithic thallus and large, epruinose apothecia with a broad margin, the hymenial surface becoming uneven to subgyrose; on sunny surfaces of limestone and dolomite; widespread in Europe and Greenland, and rather common in the Alps.