LICHALP

Phaeophyscia constipata (Norrl. & Nyl.) Moberg

Syn.: Physcia constipata Norrl. & Nyl., Physcia pulverulenta (Wahlenb.) Fürnrh. var. tenuis (Körb.) Th. Fr.

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 mainly circumboreal-montane species found on mosses and plant debris on basic siliceous substrata, sometimes on soil, in upland areas, with optimum in dry-warm situations; widespread but not common in the Alps.