LICHALP

Caloplaca anchon-phoeniceon Poelt & Clauzade

Lichenised.

Substrate:

Altitudinal distribution: 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 minute thalli and one to several sessile apothecia, both bright red; parasitic on silicicolous Aspicilia-species at high elevations; widespread in the Alps, but rare.