LICHALP

Caloplaca pyracea (Ach.) Zwackh

Syn.: Athallia pyracea (Ach.) Arup, Frödén & Søchting, Lecanora pyracea (Ach.) Nyl., Parmelia cerina (Hedw.) Ach. var. pyracea Ach., Placodium pyraceum (Ach.) Anzi

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark, calciferous rocks, siliceous rocks, lignum

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a temperate to boreal-montane, holarctic lichen found on nutrient-rich or eutrophicated bark of isolated trees (mainly Acer, Fraxinus and Juglans), with a wide altitudinal range; widespread throughout the Alps.