LICHALP

Aspicilia capituligera (Poelt) Poelt

Syn.: Lecanora capituligera Poelt

Lichenised.

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 lichen with distinctly elongated marginal lobes and cone-shaped papillae producing terminally soredia-like diaspores; optimum in the spray-zone of alpine streams; the distribution is still insufficiently known.