LICHALP

Lecidea verruca 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: an arctic-alpine, bipolar silicicolous species of the L. tessellata-group with a peculiar ecology, always growing on Aspicilia-species near or above treeline.