LICHALP

Dactylina ramulosa (Hook.) Tuck.

Syn.: Dufourea muricata Laurer, Dufourea ramulosa Hook.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil, plant debris

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: an arctic-alpine, circumpolar species found on soil developing from calcareous schists, mostly above treeline; widespread in the Alps, but generally rare.