Family: Ramalinaceae Species: Lecania erysibe sens. str. Growth type crustose. Chemical results negative Photos: On concrete post. Killeenleigh, Co. Cork, SW Ireland. Very variable with a scurfy grey or greenish-brown thallus that can be thin or cracked and areolate and is often densely blastidiate. Usually fertile with small orange-brown to blackish discs, the thin, paler margins becoming excluded. The spores are 1-septate, 9-16 × 3-5 µm. Microscope photographs below. Can be common on nutrient-enriched bricks, walls, church memorials and asbestos-cement and also found on decaying wood The Lecania erysibe sens. lat. aggregate comprises Lecania erysibe, Lecania hutchinsiae, Lecania inundata, Lecania rabenhorstii, Lecania sylvestris, Lecania turicensis

Microscope photographs



Lecania erysibe sens. str.April 2012