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Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Species: Flavoparmelia caperata Photos: On tree trunks in car park. Macroom, Cork, SW Ireland. Bluish-grey to apple-green thallus with tranversely wrinkled lobes expanding at apices. Under surface black with light-brown margins and simple rhizines. Coarse granular soredia spreading over lobes, apothecia occasional with sorediate margins. Medulla and soredia: K+/- dirty yellow, C-, KC+ red, P+ orange-red. Host to the lichenicolous fungus Abrothallus microspermus Common on well-lit acid-barked deciduous trees. Also found on fences, roofs, headstones and siliceous rocks. Similar: Flavoparmelia soredians K+ yellow slowly turning red. |
Flavoparmelia caperata.