LICHALP

Lecanora varia (Hoffm.) Ach.

Syn.: Lecanora subvaria Nyl., Lecanora varia (Hoffm.) Ach. var. abbrevians Hedl., Lecanora varia (Hoffm.) Ach. var. denudata Bagl., Lecanora varia (Hoffm.) Ach. var. subvaria (Nyl.) H. Olivier, Patellaria varia Hoffm.

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum, bark

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a cool-temperate to circumboreal-montane lichen found on hard lignum, more rarely on smooth, hard, acid bark, especially of conifers, in upland areas; widespread throughout the Alps.