LICHALP

Rinodina candidogrisea Hafellner, Muggia & Obermayer

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil, , plant debris, living mosses

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 recently-described, ornitocoprophilous, terricolous species growing on mosses and plant debris over calcareous substrata near and above treeline; probably more widespread in the Alps.