LICHALP

Toninia sedifolia (Scop.) Timdal

Syn.: Biatorina vesicularis (Hoffm.) Jatta, Lecidea glebosa Ach., Lecidea subtabacina Nyl., Lecidea vesicularis (Hoffm.) Ach., Lichen sedifolius Scop., Patellaria vesicularis Hoffm., Psora paradoxa (Ehrh.) Hoffm., Psora vesicularis (Hoffm.) Hoffm., Thalloidima caeruleonigricans auct. non (Lightf.) Poetsch, Thalloidima vesiculosum M. Choisy, Toninia caeruleonigricans auct. non (Lightf.) Th. Fr., Toninia carolitana (Arnold) Nimis & Poelt, Toninia muricola B. de Lesd., Toninia subtabacina (Nyl.) H. Olivier, Toninia vesicularis (Hoffm.) Boistel, Verrucaria grisea Willd.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil, calciferous rocks

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a widespread holarctic lichen with a broad altitudinal and latitudinal range found on soil and weathered calciferous, more rarely basic siliceous rocks, often overgrowing mosses and associated with cyanobacteria or cyanobacterial lichens when young; common in dry, open grasslands throughout the Alps.