Irish lichens

Punctelia reddenda

Order: Lecanorales       Family: Parmeliaceae

Species: Punctelia reddenda

Growth type foliose. Identified by John Douglass
Photos: On Prunus and zinc roof. Co. Cork, SW Ireland.

Thallus bluish-grey, grey-green or yellowish-green, lower surface black with paler margins. Lobes dotted with white pseudocyphellae producing soralia with coarse, granular soredia. Small folioles often present, apothecia and pycnidia absent in Britain and Ireland.

'Old woodland' indicator usually found on mossy trunks in sheltered, humid woodlands. Also occurs on mossy rocks. Scattered throughout Ireland. Cortex K+ yellow. Medulla reactions negative.

Similar: Punctelia subrudecta, pale lower surface, medulla C+ red. P. borreri, lower surface black, medulla C+ red


Punctelia reddenda

Punctelia reddenda

Punctelia reddenda

Punctelia reddenda
Punctelia reddenda November 2009 and January 2010

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