LICHALP

Halecania pannarica M. Brand & van den Boom

Lichenised.

Substrate:

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a species resembling H. giraltiae, with a thallus composed of small squamules (Pd+ orange), laminal, bluish-black soralia (small apothecia occasionally present); on boulders and outcrops of various types of schists, often parasitic on Aspicilia-species (rarely on Acarospora and Rhizocarpon); so far known from a few localities in the Western Alps.