Bacidia circumspecta
Description & Identification
Thallus whitish or pale green-grey, thin, irregularly warted but without distinct granules. Apothecia 0.2-0.7 mm diam., flat, black, with a margin.
Distinguished from B. subincompta by the non-granular thallus and pale hypothecium, and from both B. vermifera and B. subcircumspecta by the bacilliform ascospores amd green epithecium. B igniarii has mostly shorter ascospore sand slightly smaller, barrel- to inversely cone-shaped apothecia.
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| Photo: Vagn Alstrup | Photo: Ray Woods |
Records from Wales
| Location | Grid Reference | Last Rec'd | Recorder | SSSI |
| Brecknock: Ally-y-Gest | SN 8952 | 1969 | A. Pentecost | Yes |
| Brecknock: west of Allt Cynhelyg | SO 0247 | 1998 | R.G. Woods | No? |
| Brecknock: Carn Gafallt - near Elan Village | SN 934650 | 1991 | A.O. Orange | Yes |
| Radnor: Gilfach Farm | SN 963717 | 2011 | R.G. Woods | Yes |
| Radnor: River Wye - Nannerth Fawr | SN 948714 | 1988 | R.G. Woods | Yes |
| Radnor: River Wye - Alpine Bridge | SO 090629 | 1986 | R.G. Woods | Yes |
| Radnor: Dderw | SN 959683 | 1986 | R.G. Woods | No |
| Radnor: Llandeilo, Rhulen & Llanbedr Hills | SO 076465 | 1999 | S.P. Chambers | Yes |
NBN Taxon Key
NBNSYS0000018220
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