LICHALP

Myriolecis torrida (Vain.) Śliwa, Zhao Xin & Lumbsch

Syn.: Lecanora torrida Vain.

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 nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a species intermediate between M. dispersa and M. albescens, with a dispersed, areolate thallus and scattered apothecia with dark brown, epruinose discs, the epihymenial granules insoluble in K and N; on more or less calcareous rocks; widespread and known from both Hemispheres, with a few records from the Eastern Alps (Austria), but probably still overlooked elsewhere.