LICHALP

Caloplaca fulvolutea (Nyl.) Jatta

Syn.: Callopisma fulvoluteum (Nyl.) Arnold, Caloplaca jungermanniae (Vahl) Th. Fr. var. fuscolutoides Räsänen, Lecanora fulvolutea Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: living mosses

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: a taxon close to C. jungermanniae with intensely yellow apothecia showing persistently protruding margins; muscicolous, almost exclusively overgrowing Grimmia on acidic rocks; based on a type from Northern Finland, with a few records from the Alps. The species was also reported from Italy (outside the Alps), but these records refer to C. chelyae Pérez-Vargas.