LICHALP

Lecidella carpathica Körb.

Syn.: Blastenia rejecta Th. Fr., Lecidea baskalensis Szatala, Lecidea carpathica (Körb.) Szatala, Lecidea continuior Nyl., Lecidea diffractula H. Magn., Lecidea durietzii H. Magn., Lecidea fennica Räsänen, Lecidea kotiluotensis Vain, Lecidea latypea auct. p.p. non Ach., Lecidea latypiza auct. non Nyl., Lecidea latypizella Nádv., Lecidea loudiana Zahlbr., Lecidea pertingens Nyl., Lecidea subsmaragdula H. Magn., Lecidea suprasedens Zahlbr., Lecidella carpathica Körb. var. latypizella (Nádv.) Hertel, Nesolechia vainioana Räsänen

Lichenised.

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

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) 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 base-rich rocks wetted by rain in exposed situations, often starting the life-cycle on other crustose lichens; widespread and common throughout the Alps.