LICHALP

Lecidea atrobrunnea (DC.) Schaer. subsp. stictica Hertel & Leuckert

Lichenised.

Substrate: siliceous rocks

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 holarctic silicicolous taxon with optimum near and above treeline; widespread but rarely collected in the Alps.