Order: Teloschistales       Family: Teloschistaceae Species: Variospora flavescens (Caloplaca flavescens) Growth type placodioid (crustose with lobed margins) Photos: On church wall. Macroom, Cork, SW Ireland. Rosettes of long narrow yellow-orange lobes, whitish at the centre which often disintegrates and falls out with age. Numerous orange apothecia with paler margins. Soredia and isidia are absent. K+ crimson / purple. Very common throughout Ireland on walls, church memorials and headstones and also on hard calcareous rocks. Similar: Caloplaca aurantia

Variospora flavescens (Caloplaca flavescens). Macroom, County Cork.