Irish lichens

Lecanora pulicaris

Order: Lecanorales       Family: Lecanoraceae

Species: Lecanora pulicaris

Growth type crustose
Photos: On wooden seat. Kilcolman, Co. Limerick, Ireland

Smooth or warted yellow-white or greyish thallus, with or without a white or greyish prothallus. Discs red-brown or dark brown, medulla with large crystals (not dissolving in K) and small granules (dissolving in K) on surface of epithecium. Spores 11-15 x 8-10 µm. Microscope photograph below.

On acid-barked twigs and branches and wooden posts and fences. K+ yellow, C-, KC-, P+ orange-red, UV- or bluish-white

Similar: Lecanora chlarotera. P-. Larger granules on epithecium


Lecanora pulicaris

Lecanora pulicaris

Lecanora pulicaris

Microscope photograph
Lecanora pulicaris
Lecaonora pulicaris. March 2010 and September 2019

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