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Order: Peltigerales Family: Peltigeraceae
Species: Peltigera leucophlebia All photographs © Shane Dunne. The Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland. The large, wavy lobes are grey-brown when dry but turn bright green when wet and have dark wart-like cephalodia tightly attached to the upper surface. The undersurface is pale near the margins but dark in the centre with dark rhizines and a network of dark veins. Apothecia are infrequent, the spores 3-7 septate. Usually found among mossy, calcareous rocks with most Irish records from Counties Clare and Sligo Similar: Peltigera britannica is very rare with loosely attached cephalodia, no network of dark veins under the lobes and has never been found fertile in Europe |
Peltigera leucophlebia. The Burren, Co. Clare. January 2023