Irish lichens

Caloplaca ochracea
Order: Teloschistales       Family: Teloschistaceae

Species: Caloplaca ochracea

Growth type crustose
Photos: On limestone. Black Head, the Burren, W Ireland.
BLS Burren meeting 2009

Scurfy or continuous patchy pale-yellow to yellow-grey thallus. Dark orange-yellow flat apothecia with thick, slightly paler margins. Apothecia never convex. Mosaic-forming.

Occurs among other lichens on limestone. Main distribution in Ireland is in the Burren, Co. Clare and in Co. Antrim.
K+ crimson / purple.


Caloplaca ochracea


Caloplaca ochracea


Caloplaca ochracea
Caloplaca ochracea. BLS Burren meeting, April 2009

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