Irish lichens

Collema auriforme
Order: Peltigerales       Family: Collemataceae

Species: Lathagrium auriforme (Collema auriforme)

Growth type foliose.
Photos: On limestone rock and urban walls. Ireland.

Dark greenish-brown, smooth, erect lobes with patches of coarse globular isidia. Lobes are swollen and jelly-like when wet, becoming black and shrivelled when dry. Apothecia rare, margins isidiate.

Common on moist, shaded mortared walls, tombstones and mossy calcareous rocks. Chemical reactions negative.

Similar: Collema fuscovirens and Leptogium plicatile


Collema auriforme

Collema auriforme

Collema auriforme
Collema auriforme. December 2008 and April 2009

Please Contact me if you find errors. All images used are copyright.