LICHALP

Lecanora anopta Nyl.

Syn.: Lecidea anopta (Nyl.) Lettau

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum, bark

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the 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 related to L. saligna, from which it differs in the reddish-brown to blackish apothecia with evanescent thalline margins, recalling those of L. cadubriae (but that species is K+ yellow to orange-red); on decorticated trunks, more rarely on the bark of conifers; probably more widespread in the Alps.