LICHALP

Rhizocarpon schedomyces Hafellner & Poelt

Lichenised.

Substrate:

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) 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 species with a mainly endothalline thallus visible around the apothecia as a greyish-brownish discoloration and 1-septate, pigmented ascospores; on weakly calciferous schists or basic siliceous rocks, obligately parasitic on Pertusaria (e.g. P. pseudocorallina), forming minute insular patches; so far only known from the Eastern Alps (Austria).