LICHALP

Lecanora margacea Poelt

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 with a thallus of whitish, roundish to later indistinctly lobate squamules, and sessile apothecia with lecanorine margins and brown discs; on calcareous schists and marly limestones; widespread in Europe but rare, with a few records from the Eastern Alps.