LICHALP

Lecanora symmicta (Ach.) Ach. var. sorediosa auct. non Westman

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) 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 Central Europe this name is used for perhaps heterogenous sorediate lichens of the L. symmicta-group (but different from L. orae-frigidae R. Sant., a lignicolous maritime-arctic species not occurring in the Alps); on branches of shrubs (Rhododendron) and on plant debris and moribund mosses at high elevations; in the study area so far known only from the Eastern Alps (Austria), but probably overlooked or confused with other taxa elsewhere.