LICHALP

Verrucaria latebrosa Körb.

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: , , lignum

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: a freshwater species periodically submerged on hard siliceous rocks, occasionally also on calcareous substrata. This species was included in V. aethiobola by Orange as a member of a “collective species”, and its relation to V. anziana remains to be clarified. No material from the type locality has ever been sequenced, which may be necessary to select a sequenced epiptype in order to fix the ambiguity in the use of this name. See also note on V. anziana.