LICHALP

Anaptychia ciliaris (L.) Flot.

Syn.: Anaptychia melanosticta (Ach.) Trass, Borrera ciliaris (L.) Ach., Borrera solenaria Duby, Hagenia ciliaris (L.) W. Mann, Lichen ciliaris L., Parmelia ciliaris (L.) Ach., Physcia ciliaris (L.) DC.

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, calciferous rocks, calciferous soil

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)

Note: a temperate species found on bark of more or less isolated trees, sometimes also on rock and amongst terricolous mosses in open situations; widespread throughout the Alps, but probably declining. See also note on A. crinalis.