LICHALP

Lecidea speirodes Nyl.

Syn.: Lecidea contigua (Hoffm.) Fr. var. subcretacea Arnold, Lecidea decorosa Arnold, Lecidea subcretacea (Arnold) P. Syd., Lecidea subumbonata sensu Arnold et Lettau non Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists), 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 lichen known from the central and southern European mountains (Alps, Pyrenees, Cordillera Cantabrica in Spain, Tatra) found on steeply inclined, superficially decalcified calciferous rocks or on lime-containing siliceous rocks.