LICHALP

Phaeophyscia orbicularis (Neck.) Moberg

Syn.: Lichen orbicularis Neck., Parmelia cycloselis Ach. nom.illeg., Parmelia obscura (Ehrh.) Fr. var. cycloselis Schaer. nom.illeg., Parmelia obscura (Ehrh.) Fr. var. orbicularis (Neck.) Eschw., Parmelia pulverulenta Ach. non auct., Physcia cycloselis (Durieu & Mont.) Vain. ex Räsänen, Physcia hueiana (Harm.) Räsänen, Physcia obscura (Ehrh. ex Humb.) Fürnr. non auct., Physcia obscura (Ehrh. ex Humb.) Fürnr. var. hueiana (Harm.) H. Olivier, Physcia obscura (Ehrh. ex Humb.) Fürnr. var. virella (Ach.) Nyl., Physcia orbicularis (Neck.) Poetsch, Physcia orbicularis (Neck.) Poetsch var. virella (Ach.) A.L. Sm., Physcia pulverulenta (Wahlenb.) Fürnrh. non auct., Physcia virella (Ach.) Flagey, Physcia virella (Ach.) Flagey var. hueiana (Harm.) Sántha

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, lignum, calciferous rocks, siliceous rocks

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a holarctic, very polymorphic, ecologically wide-ranging and common species also occurring within settlements on a wide variety of substrata; widespread and common throughout the Alps.