LICHALP

Gyalolechia bracteata (Hoffm.) A. Massal. subsp. deformis (Erichsen) ined. (provisionally placed here, ICN Art. 36.1b)

Syn.: Caloplaca bracteata (Hoffm.) Jatta var. deformis Erichsen, Fulgensia bracteata (Hoffm.) Räsänen subsp. deformis (Erichsen) Poelt

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil, living mosses

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 usually sterile morph spreading by schizidia developing from the central squamules and exposing the white medulla after they have split off; on soil in fissures; in the Alps most common in the limestone mountain chains, in the extra-Alpine foreland mostly over gypsum soils.