LICHALP

Clauzadea monticola (Ach. ex Schaer.) Hafellner & Bellem.

Syn.: Biatora fuscorubens Nyl., Biatora monticola (Ach. ex Schaer.) Hepp, Biatora ochracea Hepp nom.illeg., Lecidea caementicola Erichsen, Lecidea fuscorubens (Nyl.) Nyl., Lecidea monticola Ach. ex Schaer., Lecidea ochracea (Arnold) Zwackh, Lecidea rubigineoatra Vain., Lecidea subacervata Müll. Arg., Lecidea sympathetica Taylor ex Leight., Lecidella fuscorubens (Nyl.) Stein, Lecidella ochracea Arnold, Protoblastenia fuscorubens (Nyl.) Räsänen, Protoblastenia monticola (Ach. ex Schaer.) J. Steiner, Protoblastenia ochracea (Arnold) Zahlbr., Sarcogyne calcomaura Norman

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) 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 holarctic pioneer species of calciferous rocks (limestone, dolomite, sandstone, calciferous schists), also found on man-made substrata (e.g. on mortar walls), and even on gypsum, with optimum below the montane belt; widespread throughout the Alps.