LICHALP

Caloplaca lucifuga G. Thor

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, lignum

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a temperate species found on ancient, more or less isolated deciduous trees, especially oaks or Castanea, often in crevices of rough bark and on faces seldom wetted by rain; rare in the Alps.