LICHALP

Lobothallia chadefaudiana (Cl. Roux) A. Nordin, Cl. Roux & Sohrabi

Syn.: Aspicilia cernohorskyana (Clauzade & Vězda) Cl. Roux var. macedonica Vězda, Aspicilia chadefaudiana Cl. Roux

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks

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: similar to L. cernohorskyana in the greenish-brown colour of the epihymenium and the minute ascospores, but thalli areolate-squamulose and thick from the beginning, and apothecia persistently immersed; on various types of calciferous rocks (limestone, dolomite); in the Alps reported from the lowlands to the subalpine ecotone.