LICHALP

Caloplaca conciliascens (Nyl.) Zahlbr.

Syn.: Lecanora conciliascens Nyl.

Lichenised.

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

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: related to C. exsecuta, known from the locus classicus in Tyrol, from a single locality in the French Maritime Alps and in Central Switzerland, and from dry-warm sites in Piemonte.