LICHALP

Miriquidica pulvinatula (Arnold) Hertel & Rambold

Syn.: Lecidea circumnigrata H. Magn., Lecidea pulvinatula (Arnold) Dalla Torre & Sarnth., Lecidea wolfiana Müll. Arg., Lecidella pulvinatula Arnold

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks, metal-rich 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: on iron-rich crystalline rocks near and above treeline; with very few scattered records from the Alps; closely related to M. leucophaea.