LICHALP

Heppia lutosa (Ach.) Nyl.

Syn.: Collema lutosum Ach., Collema sanguinolentum (Kremp.) Stizenb., Heppia atlantica Gyeln.

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous soil

Altitudinal range: from the mesomediterranean belt (potential vegetation: evergreen broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus ilex) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a mainly Mediterranean-Atlantic lichen found on more or less calciferous soil in dry grasslands below the montane belt; it was often confused, in the older literature, with H. adglutinata, which is bound to upland areas; widespread throughout the Alps.