LICHALP

Gyalecta jenensis (Batsch) Zahlbr. var. jenensis

Syn.: Gyalecta cupularis (Hedw.) Schaer., Gyalecta jenensis (Batsch) Zahlbr. var. montenegrina Servít, Lecanora cupularis (Hedw.) Duby, Lecidea cupularis (Hedw.) Ach., Peziza jenensis Batsch

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks, living mosses

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) 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: a holarctic species found on limestone, dolomite and other types of calciferous rocks, occasionally over bryophytes, in shaded situations such as in deep rock fissures and underhangs, with a wide altitudinal range; widespread and locally common throughout the Alps.