LICHALP

Lecanora farinaria Borrer

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 taxon of the L. subfusca-group with a sorediate thallus, resembling L. barkmaniana, but with mounds of yellowish-white soredia, a different chemistry, and apothecia, when present, of the pulicaris-type; usually on wood but occasionally also on bark; rare in the Alps, more common in NW Europe.