LICHALP

Immersaria athroocarpa (Ach.) Rambold & Pietschm.

Syn.: Amygdalaria athroocarpa (Ach.) Clauzade & Cl. Roux, Lecidea athroocarpa (Ach.) Ach., Lecidella athroocarpa (Ach.) Arnold, Lichen athroocarpus Ach., Porpidia athroocarpa (Ach.) Hertel & Rambold

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks, , metal-rich siliceous rocks

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 cool-temperate to arctic-alpine, chemically variable, circumpolar species found on siliceous, often iron-rich and weathered rocks in exposed situations, starting the life-cycle on species of Aspicilia s.lat.