LICHALP

Montanelia tominii (Oxner) Divakar, A. Crespo, Wedin & Essl.

Syn.: Melanelia substygia (Räsänen) Essl., Melanelia tominii (Oxner) Essl., Parmelia saximontana R.A. Anderson & W.A. Weber, Parmelia substygia Räsänen, Parmelia tominii Oxner

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

Note: an arctic-alpine to boreal-montane, perhaps circumpolar lichen of exposed siliceous rocks, with several scattered records from the Alps.