LICHALP

Buellia miriquidica Scheid.

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

Note: recalling the related B. uberior, but thalli containing miriquidic acid and ascospores with a psilate ornamentation; on hard siliceous rocks at high elevations, lichenicolous on Schaereria fuscocinerea; widespread in the Alps, but rarer than B. uberior.