Caloplaca flavorubescens

Caloplaca flavorubescens

Caloplaca flavorubescens

Description & Identification

This species has a white to yellow-green thallus, smooth, continuous and uncracked, coarsely granular-papillate. Apothecia are up to 3mm diam., with a bright orange disc, scattered to crowded, rounded, usually flat. the lower part of the hymenium and hypothecium have numerous oil droplets. It forms irregular patches between other lichens on bark.

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Similar Species

 C. flavovirescens has smaller, darker apothecia which lack oil droplets in the hypothecium.

Records from Wales
Location Grid Reference Last Rec'd Recorder(s) SSSI
Anglesey: near Friars, Beaumaris-Penmon SN 68* 1895 J.E. Griffiths Yes?
Caernarfon: Glynllifon Park SH 45 1971 F. Rose Yes?

 

NBN Taxon Key
NBNSYS0000020534