Order: Lecanorales       Family: Sphaerophoraceae Species: Sphaerophorus globosus Growth type fruticose. Photos: Among moss on branch and rock. Co.Cork, SW Ireland. The green-grey tinged orange-brown thallus is bushy and unevenly branched with many small digitate branchlets. Globose apothecia develop at branch tips and split releasing blue-black spores. Mainly found in western Ireland on mossy, acidic upland rocks and trees and on peaty soils. More frequent than Sphaerophorus fragilis. Medulla: K-, P-, I+ blue (test in slide preparation)

Sphaerophorus globosus. November 2008, August 2009, January 2011