LICHALP

Lecanora lojkaeana Szatala

Syn.: Squamaria ferruginea Szatala

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks

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: a rarely collected species known from the Alps, the Central European mountains, and Scandinavia, found beneath overhanging surfaces of hard siliceous rocks in upland areas; perhaps overlooked and more widespread in the Alps, being almost always sterile.