LICHALP

Diploicia canescens (Dicks.) A. Massal.

Syn.: Buellia canescens (Dicks.) De Not., Catolechia canescens (Dicks.) Anzi, Diplotomma canescens (Dicks.) Flot., Lecidea canescens (Dicks.) Ach., Lichen canescens Dicks., Placodium canescens (Dicks.) DC.; incl: Diploicia canescens (Dicks.) A. Massal. var. euthallina (Servít) ined. (provisionally placed here, ICN Art. 36.1b)

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks, bark

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus)

Note: a rather western and southern lichen in Europe, found on a wide variety of substrata including base-rich or eutrophicated bark, calciferous sandstone, and limestone, sometimes also found in underhangs of calcareous rocks protected from rain; rare in the Alps, somehow more frequent in the Western and Southern Alps.