LICHALP

Candelaria pacifica M. Westb. & Arup

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a species with minute lobes lacking a lower cortex and rhizines; on eutrophicated bark; the extra-Alpine spreading is apparently recent, in the Alps there are so far only a few records, but perhaps the species was not distinguished from C. concolor in the past.