LICHALP

Protoparmelia cupreobadia (Nyl.) Poelt

Syn.: Lecanora badia (Hoffm.) Ach. var. cupreobadia (Nyl.) Boistel, Lecanora cupreobadia Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks

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 gneiss and compact porphyric rocks near and especially above treeline, starting the life-cycle on yellow Rhizocarpon-species, later becoming autonomous; probably more widespread in the Alps. The species does not belong to Protoparmelia s.str.