LICHALP

Buellia elegans Poelt

Syn.: Buellia epigea (Pers.) Tuck. var. angustata (Müll. Arg.) Zahlbr., Buellia epigea (Pers.) Tuck. var. effigurata (Schaer.) Zahlbr., Buellia epigaea (Pers) Tuck. var. major (Müll. Arg.) Zahlbr., Diploicia epigaea (Pers.) A. Massal. var. angustata Müll. Arg., Diploicia epigaea (Pers.) A. Massal. var. effigurata (Schaer.) Körb., Diploicia epigaea (Pers.) A. Massal. var. major Müll. Arg., Lecidea epigaea (Pers.) Schaer. var. effigurata Schaer.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil

Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)

Note: a widespread steppe-species found on soil deriving from calciferous schists in open grasslands, most frequent in dry-warm valleys in the Alps.