Order: Teloschistales       Family: Teloschistaceae Species: Flavoplaca marina (Caloplaca marina) Growth type crustose Photos: On coastal rocks near Bantry, Cork, SW Ireland. Bright orange or yellowish-orange thallus, fragmented and granular or continuous and areolate. Well-developed specimens sometimes with pale prothallus and areoles with small lobes. Small grouped or scattered deeper-orange apothecia with thin, paler margins. K+ crimson / purple. Only found on hard coastal rocks and cement. Similar: Caloplaca maritima

     


Caloplaca marina on coastal rock. Bantry, Co.Cork. December 2008