LICHALP

Gyalecta sudetica Vězda

Lichenised.

Substrate: intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists)

Altitudinal distribution: alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a species of the G. leucaspis-group, but apothecial margins entire rather than radially incised as in G. erythrozona, differing from the latter in the submuriform ascospores with attenuated ends, recalling those of G. kukriensis; on calcareous schists in the montane belt of Central European orobiomes, with a few records from the Eastern Alps (Austria).