LICHALP

Caloplaca tiroliensis Zahlbr.

Syn.: Callopisma cerinum (Hedw.) De Not. f. flavum (Anzi) Dalla Torre & Sarnth., Caloplaca cerina (Hedw.) Th. Fr. f. flava (Anzi) Jatta, Caloplaca cerina (Hedw.) Th. Fr. var. flava (Anzi) Dalla Torre & Sarnth., Caloplaca friesii H. Magn., Caloplaca jungermanniae (Vahl) Th. Fr. var. subolivacea (Th. Fr.) Th. Fr., Caloplaca subolivacea (Th. Fr.) Lynge, Parvoplaca tiroliensis (Zahlbr.) Arup, Søchting & Frödén, Placodium cerinum (Hedw.) Nägeli ex Hepp var. flavum Anzi

Lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses, plant debris, calciferous soil

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a holartic, arctic-alpine species, mainly found on mosses and plant debris, often on leaves of Saxifraga, in Carex firma-stands over calcareous substrata; common in the Alps near and above treeline, up to the nival belt.