LICHALP

Caloplaca livida (Hepp) Jatta

Syn.: Blastenia livida (Hepp) Lettau, Callopisma lividum (Hepp) Körb., Caloplaca convexa (Schaer.) Zahlbr., Placodium lividum Hepp

Lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses, plant debris

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) 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: an arctic-alpine species found on plant debris and bryophytes overgrowing acid siliceous rocks, with optimum near and above treeline.