LICHALP

Protomicarea limosa (Ach.) Hafellner

Syn.: Lecidea borealis (Körb.) Anzi, Lecidea ementiens Nyl., Lecidea limosa Ach., Lecidella borealis Körb.

Lichenised.

Substrate: acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata), living mosses, plant debris

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: an arctic-alpine to boreal-montane, circumpolar lichen found on naked soil in sites with a long snow cover, in clearings of alpine grasslands, more rarely on moribund bryophytes and plant debris.