LICHALP

Immersaria cupreoatra (Nyl.) Calat. & Rambold

Syn.: Aspicilia cupreoatra (Nyl.) Arnold, Aspicilia olivacea Bagl. & Carestia, Bellemerea cupreoatra (Nyl.) Clauzade & Cl. Roux, Lecanora cupreoatra Nyl.

Lichenised.

Substrate:

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: an arctic-alpine lichen of siliceous rocks starting the life-cycle on Buellia-species, most frequent above treeline; with several scattered records from the Alps.