LICHALP

Aspicilia gibbosa (Ach.) Körb.

Syn.: Circinaria gibbosa (Ach.) A. Nordin, Savić & Tibell, Lecanora gibbosa (Ach.) Nyl., Lecanora gibbosula H. Magn., Urceolaria gibbosa Ach.

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) 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: this species is known with certainty only from Northern Europe and records from elsewhere require confirmation; the epithet ""gibbosa"" was frequently used by European authors for A. caesiocinerea.