LICHALP

Verrucaria fraudulosa Nyl.

Syn.: Verrucaria lecideoides (A. Massal.) Trevis. var. fraudulosa (Nyl.) Clauzade & Cl. Roux

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks

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: in the Alps on weakly to strongly calcareous rocks from the subalpine to the alpine belt; according to Cl. Roux a taxon of the Verruculopsis lecideoides-aggregate.