LICHALP

Phaeophyscia endococcina (Körb.) Moberg

Syn.: Parmelia endococcina Körb., Parmelia obscura (Ehrh.) Fr. var. endococcina (Körb.) Anzi, Physcia endochroidea Nyl., Physcia endococcina (Körb.) Th. Fr., Physcia lithotodes Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks, lignum

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) 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 circumboreal-montane lichen described from Italy, found near creeks and brooks, but also along seepage tracks in warm-dry valleys of the Alps; specimens without the red pigment in the medulla are relatively frequent in the Alps, mostly at low elevations.