LICHALP

Bellemerea subcandida (Arnold) Hafellner & Cl. Roux

Syn.: Aspicilia cinereorufescens (Ach.) A. Massal. f. subcandida Arnold, Lecanora sanguinea (Kremp.) Mig. f. subcandida (Arnold) Mig., Lecanora subcandida (Arnold) Lettau

Lichenised.

Substrate: calciferous rocks, intermediate rocks (such as calciferous schists)

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 probably overlooked and certainly more widespread, characteristic lichen of base-rich, weakly calciferous siliceous rocks; known from the Alps and the Pyrenees; perhaps just a calcicolous morph of B. cinereorufescens.