LICHALP

Candelariella vitellina (Hoffm.) Müll. Arg.

Syn.: Callopisma vitellinum (Hoffm.) Bagl., Caloplaca vitellina (Hoffm.) Th. Fr., Candelaria vitellina (Hoffm.) A. Massal., Candelariella vitellina (Hoffm.) Müll. Arg. var. corrusca (Ach.) Ozenda & Clauzade, Gyalolechia vitellina (Hoffm.) Anzi, Lecanora vitellina (Hoffm.) Ach., Lichen vitellinus Ehrh., Verrucaria vitellina (Hoffm.) Hoffm., Xanthoria vitellina (Hoffm.) Th. Fr., Zeora vitellina (Hoffm.) Flot. var. corruscans (Ach.) Flot.

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks, intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists), living mosses, lignum, bark

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a holarctic, almost cosmopolitan lichen with a wide ecological range, found on a wide variety of siliceous rocks, on roofing tiles, brick, and sometimes bryophytes, lignum and acid bark; widespread and common throughout the Alps.