Order: Ostropales       Family: Gyalectaceae Species: Gyalecta carneola (Pachyphiale carneola) Growth type crustose Photos: Glengarriff woods, Co. Cork, Ireland. Identified by Andy Acton Thin whitish-grey thallus with numerous concave orange-brown apothecia, translucent when wet. Raised, entire margins. Asci 16-48 spored, the spores 9-15 septate, up to 40 in each ascus, 38-80 x 3-5 µm with pointed ends. Paraphyses +/- hooked at tips. Microscope photographs below. Uncommon, on shaded, +/- rough-barked, mature trees in established woodlands. 'Ancient woodland' indicator species. Similar: Thelopsis rubella

Microscope photographs



Pachyphiale carneola March 2010 and January 2012