LICHALP

Lecidea rapax Hertel

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 nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a permanently lichenicolous species of the L. atrobrunnea-group, which invades thalli of the species Bellemerea alpina and B. cinereorufescens; closely related to L. leprosolimbata, and so far known only from the Alps. Roux et coll. (2014) consider this species as a silicicolous ecotype of L. leprosolimbata.