LICHALP

Fritzea lamprophora (Körb.) Stein

Syn.: Lecidea lamprophora (Körb.) Zahlbr., Psora lamprophora Körb.

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: siliceous rocks

Altitudinal distribution: alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a species with a brown, glossy thallus consisting of flat squamules with free margins, laminal, red-brown, immarginate apothecia, and simple (!) ascospores; ecology poorly known, type from Southern Poland, on basalt in a gorge, with a single historical record from the Eastern Alps (Austria).