Order: Agyriales       Family: Agyriaceae Species: Trapeliopsis pseudogranulosa Growth type crustose, granular. Specimen identified by John Douglass Photos: Gougane Barra, Co. Cork, SW Ireland. Minutely-granular grey or greenish-white thallus with distinctive orange patches. Greenish-white, orange-pigmented soralia that can form large patches. Apothecia absent in Britian and Ireland. Occurs throughout Ireland on humid, +/- shaded, acidic substrates. Often found in old woods and heaths on wet peat, mosses, rotting wood and plant debris. Thallus and soralia: C+ red, P-, UV-. Orange patches K+ purple Similar: T. granulosa. Apothecia present, pioneer on burnt heaths.

Trapeliopsis pseudogranulosa. October 2009