LICHALP

Thelidium antonellianum Bagl. & Carestia

Syn.: Involucrothele antonelliana (Bagl. & Carestia) Servít

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: siliceous rocks, intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists)

Altitudinal range: from the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a species found on crystalline, weakly calciferous schists above treeline; the type material, from the Italian Alps, was collected at 4,500 m; in the study area only recorded from the Southern and the Western Alps.