LICHALP

Toninia pennina (Schaer.) Gyeln.

Syn.: Biatora pennina (Schaer.) Hepp, Catillaria scotina (Körb.) Hertel & H. Kilias, Lecidea aeneiformis (Anzi) Jatta, Lecidea pennina Schaer., Lecidea scotina (Körb.) Arnold, Lecidella scotina Körb., Psora aeneiformis Anzi

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a rarely collected lichen of continental-dry areas found on steeply inclined seepage tracks of dolomite, rarely of compact limestone, almost always growing on cyanobacterial colonies when young.