LICHALP

Rinodina castanomela (Nyl.) Arnold

Syn.: Lecanora castanomela Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists)

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: an arctic-alpine to boreal-montane, perhaps circumpolar lichen found under overhanging cliffs of weakly calcareous or basic siliceous rocks, marl and calciferous schists; perhaps more widespread in the Alps.