Gheza, G., Barcella, M., Bottegoni, F., Canali, G., Cominato, E., Di Nuzzo, L., Fačkovcová, Z., Favero-Longo, S.E., Francesconi, L., Giordani, P., Matteucci, E., Munzi, S., Nascimbene, J., Paoli, L., Pistocchi, C., Santi, F., Vallese, C. & Assini, S. (2023) The lichen biota of the beech forest of the Monte Lesima-Cima Colletta ridge (Northern Apennine, Italy). Borziana, 4, 115-127. DOI:10.7320/Borziana.004.115.
In the last decades, lichenological studies started again in Lombardia (N Italy), where locally overlooked situations persist. One of such areas is the southernmost part of the Pavese Apennine, where the highest mountains of the Province of Pavia are located. We report the results of a thorough lichen survey carried out in the Natura 2000 Habitat 9130 “Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests” occurring along the Monte Lesima-Cima Colletta ridge, an area with an outstanding naturalistic relevance, part of which is included within the SCI IT2080025 “Le Torraie-Monte Lesima”. Ninety-two taxa are recorded from four sites with different features, with the richest site hosting old beech trees and rock outcrops. Circinaria coronata, Glaucomaria subcarpinea, Gyalolechia marmorata, Leproplaca chrysodeta, Pertusaria coronata, Physconia servitii, Variospora paulii and Wadeana dendrographa are new to Lombardia.
