LICHALP

Dendrographa latebrarum (Ach.) Ertz & Tehler

Syn.: Crocynia albissima B. de Lesd., Crocynia fragilissima Hue, Crocynia hueana B. de Lesd., Crocynia latebrarum (Ach.) Vain., Lecanactis latebrarum (Ach.) Arnold, Lepraria latebrarum (Ach.) Sm., Lichen latebrarum Ach.

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks, bark

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a mainly temperate species found beneath underhangs and in crevices of siliceous rocks which are seldom wetted by rain, much more rarely on old trunks of Quercus; widespread in the Alps, but generally not very common.