A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Spotted at Owhiro bay, Wellington NZ.
Teloschistales / Teloschistaceae
Elegant sunburst lichen, orange and white lichen on a brown sandstone.
This is a bright orange lichen growing on a headstone in the Cottage Grove ...
This lichen stretched over the corner of a rock on the coastline of the Cape ...
Yellow and orange, about 5 cm by 3 cm, surrounded by smaller ones. Growing on a ...
The interior has dark orange apothecia and the lobed margins are lighter.
Orange lichen with some parts turning brown. Some specimens had more apothecia ...
Deep orange with many disc-shaped apothecia. Several species of lichen were ...
Bright orange rosettes, saucer shaped fruiting bodies, closely attached to ...
In direct sun, growing on an old, ocean-facing granite wall along a paved road.
take a closer look at the myriad of coexisting rock lichens.
composed of Physcia sp., maybe P. dubia (2nd picture),
I've never seen so much lichen before in one area (around the lake), according ...
X. elegans? Caloplaca flavescens? My boss ...
Small crustose lichen (ca. 2-3 cm wide) although the thallus can be described ...
The thallus of this lichen is described as foliose, having the aspect of ...