Order: Lichinales       Family: Lichinaceae Species: Lichina pygmaea Growth type fruticose. Photos: On coastal rock below HWM. Bantry area, Cork, Ireland. Black to dark-brown thallus forms mats to 1cm high. Branches +/- flattened, some can be yellow-brown. Spherical apothecia on tips, the spores simple, oblong to broadly ovoid, 22-29 x 11-16 µm Coastal on siliceous rocks below high water mark. Chemical reations negative Similar: L. confinis. Smaller, to 5mm high. Above HWM.

     


Lichina pygmaea on rocks below the high-water mark. Bantry, Co.Cork. February 2009