LICHALP

Lecanora cenisia Ach.

Syn.: Lecanora atrynea (Ach.) Nyl., Lecanora atrynea (Ach.) Nyl. var. melacarpa Nyl., Lecanora cenisia Ach. var. atrynea (Ach.) H. Magn., Lecanora cenisia Ach. var. melacarpa (Nyl.) Boistel, Lecanora transcendens (Nyl.) Arnold, Parmelia cenisia (Ach.) Fr., Zeora cenisia (Ach.) Flot.

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks, bark, lignum

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a circumpolar, cool-temperate to arctic-alpine lichen of siliceous rocks, more rarely also found on hard lignum; widespread and common throughout the Alps.