LICHALP

Verrucaria finitima Breuss & F. Berger

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks

Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) 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 recently-described species resembling V. poeltii, found above the montane belts in the Alps on hard, exposed limestone rocks with a long snow cover; perhaps more widespread in the Alps.