LICHALP

Caloplaca erythrocarpa (Pers.) Zwackh

Syn.: Blastenia arenaria sensu A. Massal., Blastenia lallavei (Clemente ex Ach.) A. Massal., Callopisma arenarium auct. p.p. non (Pers.) Müll. Arg., Caloplaca arenaria auct. p.p. non (Pers.) Müll. Arg., Caloplaca erythrocarpa (Pers.) Zwackh f. diffractoareolata B. de Lesd., Caloplaca lallavei (Clemente ex Ach.) Flagey, Kuettlingeria lallavei (Clemente ex Ach.) Trevis., Lecidea lallavei Clemente ex Ach., Patellaria erythrocarpa Pers., Placodium lallavei (Clemente ex Ach.) Anzi

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks, intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists)

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a mainly mild-temperate to subtropical species found on limestone, dolomite, calciferous sandstone, much more rarely mortar and brick, on horizontal to weakly inclined faces wetted by rain, often starting the life-cycle on calcicolous Aspicilia-species; optimum in natural habitats; most frequent in the Southern and Western Alps, at low elevations.