LICHALP

Aspicilia verruculosa Kremp.

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: siliceous rocks, intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists)

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: on weakly calciferous rocks. A critical taxon, known only from the Southern European mountains, but perhaps just a chemotype of A. polychroma (see e.g. Roux et coll. 2014).