LICHALP

Caloplaca luteoalba (Ach.) Th. Fr.

Syn.: Biatorina luteoalba (Ach.) Körb., Callopisma luteoalbum (Ach.) A. Massal., Caloplaca luteoalba (Ach.) Th. Fr. var. persooniana (Ach.) H. Olivier, Candelariella luteoalba (Ach.) Lettau, Cerothallia luteoalba (Ach.) Arup, Frödén & Søchting, Gyalecta persooniana Ach., Gyalolechia luteoalba (Ach.) Arnold, Lecanora ulmicola (DC.) Hue, Lecidea cinereofusca (Weber) Ach. v. luteoalba Ach. Placodium luteoalbum (Ach.) Anzi

Lichenised.

Substrate: bark

Altitudinal distribution: submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus)

Note: a mild-temperate lichen found on dust-covered bark, and in the wound tracks of injured, old trunks of deciduous trees, especially Ulmus; more frequent in the past, now strongly declining and perhaps extinct in several parts of the Alps.