LICHALP

Polyblastia tatrana Servít

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil, calciferous rocks, plant debris

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: a species resembling P. sendtneri, but with a basally closed involucrellum; on soil and plant debris over calcareous rocks in the European mountains; distribution insufficiently documented because the species was often not distinguished, with a few records from the Eastern Alps (Austria), but probably still overlooked elsewhere.