LICHALP

Lecidea atrobrunnea (DC.) Schaer. subsp. saxosa Hertel & Leuckert

Syn.: Lecidea gneissicola Zahlbr., Lecidea saxosa R.S. Anderson nom. inval., Lecidea syncarpa Zahlbr.

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 rather common chemical strain of the L. atrobrunnea-complex containing the substances of the norstictic acid syndrome; widespread in the mountains of the Northern Hemisphere.