LICHALP

Scytinium callopismum (A. Massal.) Otálora, P.M. Jørg. & Wedin

Syn.: Collema callopismum A. Massal., Leptogium callopismum (A. Massal.) Harm.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) 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 mainly western European, temperate lichen of more or less calciferous rocks, often on seepage tracks.