LICHALP

Protoblastenia aurata Poelt & Vězda

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous 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 alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a rare species, peculiar in the genus due to its yellow-orange thallus reacting K+ purple; on calciferous siliceous rocks, especially schists.