LICHALP

Xanthoria elegans (Link) Th. Fr. var. granulifera Giralt, Nimis & Poelt

Syn.: Rusavskia granulifera (Giralt, Nimis & Poelt) S.Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.

Substrate: calciferous 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 alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)

Note: a northern taxon growing together with subspecies elegans, hitherto only known from the Eastern Alps.