LICHALP

Aspicilia hispida Mereschk.

Syn.: Agrestia cyphellata J.W. Thomson, Agrestia hispida (Mereschk.) Hale & W.L. Culb., Circinaria hispida (Mereschk.) A. Nordin, Savić & Tibell, Lecanora hispida (Mereschk.) Zahlbr., Sphaerothallia hispida (Mereschk.) Follmann & A. Crespo

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

Note: a species of the steppes of Central Asia, with a disjunct distribution in the most continental parts of the Iberian Peninsula, in the mountains of Greece, and in the Western Alps.