LICHALP

Solorina saccata (L.) Ach.

Syn.: Lichen saccatus L.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil, ,

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) 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 cool-temperate to arctic-alpine, circumpolar lichen found on calciferous soil rich in humus and terricolous mosses, often in cracks of the rock; widespread and often common throughout the Alps.