LICHALP

Protoparmelia loricata Poelt & Vězda

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 pale brown thallus consisting of glossy, convex areoles and concolorous apothecia with a later excluded thalline margin; growing as a parasite on Lecanora umbrosa, extremely rare on shaded, steeply inclined to vertical faces of basic siliceous rocks with a low content in calcium (e.g. amphibolite); only known from the Eastern Alps (Austria) and the Karakorum.