LICHALP

Aspicilia elmorei (E.D. Rudolph) ined. (provisionally placed here, ICN Art. 36.1b)

Syn.: Aspicilia desertorum auct. p.p. non (Kremp.) Mereschk., Aspicilia esculenta auct. p.p. non (Pall.) Flagey, Circinaria elmorei (E.D. Rudolph) Owe-Larss., A. Nordin & Sohrabi, Lecanora elmorei E.D. Rudolph

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

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 xeric subtropical lichen of steeply inclined, hard, more or less calciferous rocks and dolomite. The taxonomy of this group is still unsettled: saxicolous crustose forms formerly called Aspicilia desertorum belong to the Circinaria elmorei-complex, which is presently under revision (Sohrabi, in litt.).