Caloplaca chrysodeta (Vain.) Dombr. comb. inval.
Syn.: Callopisma chrysodetum (Vain.) Räsänen, Leproplaca chrysodeta (Vain.) J.R. Laundon ex Ahti, Placodium chrysodetum Vain.
Lichenised.
Substrate: calciferous rocks, intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists)
Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)
Note: a temperate to humid subtropical species found on shaded, steeply inclined or underhanging surfaces of calciferous rocks, sometimes also overgrowing epilithic mosses or even occurring on the undersides of inclined old trunks of trees with base-rich bark; widespread throughout the Alps.
Austria: Vorarlberg; Tirol; Salzburg; Kärnten; Steiermark; Oberösterreich; Niederösterreich (incl. Wien); Burgenland; Germany: Oberbayern; Schwaben; Switzerland: Bern; Luzern; Schwyz; Valais; France: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; Haute-Alpes; Alpes-Maritimes; Haute-Savoie; Vaucluse; Var; Italy: Friuli; Veneto; Piemonte; Liguria;