LICHALP

Lecania cuprea (A. Massal.) van den Boom & Coppins

Syn.: Bacidia albidocarnea (Nyl.) Zahlbr. var. alborubella (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Bacidia albidocarnea (Nyl.) Zahlbr. var. albovirella (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Bacidia albovirella (Nyl.) H. Olivier, Bacidia cuprea (A. Massal.) Lettau, Bacidia cupreorosella (Nyl. ex Stizenb.) A. Schneid., Bacidia prasinoides (Nyl.) Nyl., Biatora cupreorosella (Nyl. ex Stizenb.) Tuck., Bilimbia cuprea A. Massal., Catillaria umbraticula (Nyl.) P. James, Lecidea albovirella Nyl., Lecidea cupreorosella Nyl. ex Stizenb.

Lichenised.

Substrate: intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists)

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a mainly temperate species found on underhanging or vertical, base-rich or somehow calciferous rocks in woodlands and gorges, sometimes overgrowing epilithic mosses; widespread in the Alps.