LICHALP

Lecidella patavina (A. Massal.) Knoph & Leuckert

Syn.: Buellia sordida (A. Massal.) Jatta, Catillaria sordida A. Massal., Lecidea acrocyanea (Th. Fr.) H. Magn., Lecidea alaiensis Vain., Lecidea araratica Müll. Arg., Lecidea endolithea Lynge, Lecidea epipolioides (J. Steiner) Szatala, Lecidea inamoena Müll. Arg., Lecidea patavina A. Massal., Lecidea piemontensis B. de Lesd., Lecidea portensis Nádv., Lecidea rolleana H. Magn., Lecidea rolleana H. Magn. var. portensis (Nádv.) Hertel, Lecidea spitsbergensis Lynge, Lecidella alaiensis (Vain.) Hertel, Lecidella alaiensis (Vain.) Hertel var. spitzbergensis (Lynge) Clauzade & Cl. Roux, Lecidella endolithea (Lynge) Hertel & Leuckert, Lecidella inamoena (Müll. Arg.) Hertel, Lecidella spitsbergensis (Lynge) Hertel & Leuckert

Lichenised.

Substrate: 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 circumpolar, cool-temperate to arctic-alpine, nitrophilous lichen, one of the most common calcicolous lichens of upland areas throughout the Alps; related to L. stigmatea.