LICHALP

Eiglera flavida (Hepp) Hafellner

Syn.: Aspicilia argillacea Anzi, Aspicilia flavida (Hepp) Rehm, Aspicilia flavida (Hepp) Rehm f. detrita Arnold, Aspicilia micrantha Körb., Aspicilia ochracea (Schaer.) A.Massal., Lecanora flavida Hepp, Lecanora flavida Hepp f. detrita (Arnold) Mig., Lecidea contraria Malme

Lichenised.

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

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 lichen found on base-rich or weakly calciferous rocks, not rarely on pebbles and small stones near the ground in cold sites; widespread throughout the Alps, but easy to overlook.