LICHALP

Acarospora chrysocardia Poelt & M. Steiner

Lichenised.

Substrate:

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: on base-rich siliceous rocks, growing on the thalli of Diploschistes scruposus below the subalpine belt; hitherto known only from dry-warm valleys of the Western Alps and Catalonia, and certainly worthy of protection.