LICHALP

Lathagrium fuscovirens (With.) Otálora, P.M. Jørg. & Wedin

Syn.: Collema furvum (Ach.) DC., Collema fuscovirens (With.) J.R. Laundon, Collema stillicidiorum Harm., Collema subgranosum Harm., Collema tuniforme (Ach.) Ach., Collema verruciforme (Ach.) Nyl., Lichen furvus Ach., Lichen fuscovirens With., Lichen tuniformis Ach., Parmelia furva (Ach.) Ach.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks, living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) 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 widespread holarctic lichen found on calciferous rocks, more rarely on epilithic mosses, in moderately sheltered sites with some water seepage after rain, with a wide altitudinal range; widespread throughout the Alps.