LICHALP

Lepraria borealis Loht. & Tønsberg

Lichenised.

Substrate: , acidic soil (mostly on siliceous substrata)

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a circumboreal species growing on siliceous rocks and over epilithic mosses, with optimum in the oroboreal to alpine belts, with scattered records from the Alps.