LICHALP

Lecidea diducens Nyl.

Syn.: Lecidea auriculata Th. Fr. var. diducens (Nyl.) Th. Fr., Lecidea sarcogyniza Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks

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 circum- and bipolar, arctic-alpine silicicolous lichen, ecologically similar to, and closely related to L. auriculata.