LICHALP

Rinodina ventricosa Hinteregger & Giralt

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) 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: on Rhododendron ferrugineum and rarely on Rh. hirsutum, with a rather scattered distribution in the Alps.