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Ochrolechia parella
Order: Pertusariales Family: Pertusariaceae Species: Ochrolechia parella Growth type crustose. Thick, warted, creamy-white or greyish thallus. White prothallus with zoned 'growth-rings' near thickened margins. Very fertile, numerous pinkish apothecia usually with cracked white pruina. Common both coastal and inland on hard, siliceous rocks.
lichen growing on rocks at the water's edge, Bay of Kenmare, SW Ireland.
thanks Leuba and ChunXingWong. Amazing things, lichen, when you see them up close...
Uploaded a similar spotting.
Check it out.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/121...
Yes pamsai, macro is wonderful with lichens. And they are fascinating organisms!
thanks arlanda, it's an amazing world when you get up close to a lichen. I only saw them as colour before!
Not very sure about this one. First I thought of some physcia , as the Physcia biziana of this spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/944... that also occurs together with X. parietina. But yours is really a crustose lichen that occurs in coastal rocks so my only guess is Ochrolechia parella, although I miss the 'growth-rings'. http://www.irishlichens.ie/pages-lichen/...
Spotted on Jul 3, 2012
Submitted on Jul 3, 2012
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