Irish lichens
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Order: Lecanorales Family: Lecanoraceae
Species: Lecidella stigmatea Photos: On rock. Ballingeary area, Co. Cork, SW Ireland. Variable. Thallus almost evanescent to cracked and +/- areolate. Patches of pale grey or whitish thallus stained greenish, red-brown or black. Sessile apothecia with dark brown or black discs, margins becoming excluded. Epithecium purple-brown, hypothecium pale yellow or colourless. Asci 8-spored, spores simple, 10-16 x 6-9 µm. Widespread, common on urban walls and paths, cement, mortar. Also found on weakly calcareous or base-enriched siliceous rocks. Thallus: K+/- yellow, C-, P-, UV- Similar: Clauzadea monticola. Red-brown hypothecium. |
Lecidella stigmatea. October 2009