Order: Peltigerales       Family: Pannariaceae Species: Fuscopannaria sampaiana Growth type squamulose. Photos: On mossy tree trunks. Glengarriff, Cork, SW Ireland. Reddish-brown or tan squamules, paler margins covered with coarse, granular pale-cream or concolorous soredia. Surrounded by bluish-black prothallus. Not known fertile in Britain or Ireland. On smooth patches or among moss on basic-barked trees in old woodland. Rare, only recorded in Ireland from the SW. Similar: Parmeliella testacea, found in old woodland and Vahliella leucophaea, occuring on calcareous maritime rocks.

Fuscopannaria sampaiana. Glengarriff, Co. Cork. May 2009