Pseudephebe minuscula (Nyl. ex Arnold) Brodo & D. Hawksw.

Pseudephebe minuscula (Nyl. ex Arnold) Brodo & D. Hawksw.

Syn.: Alectoria minuscula (Nyl. ex Arnold) Degel., Imbricaria lanata (Neck.) Arnold var. minuscula Nyl. ex Arnold, Parmelia minuscula (Nyl. ex Arnold) Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: an arctic-alpine, circumpolar species found on hard siliceous rocks (including pure quartz) in wind-exposed situations near and especially above treeline; often confused with P. pubescens in the older literature; widespread throughout the Alps wherever siliceous substrata are present.

Austria: Vorarlberg; Tirol; Salzburg; Kärnten; Steiermark; Switzerland: Bern; Graubünden; Ticino; Uri; Valais; France: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; Haute-Alpes; Alpes-Maritimes; Haute-Savoie; Italy: Trentino Alto Adige; Lombardia; Piemonte;

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