Irish lichens

Clauzadea immersa
Order: Lecanorales       Family: Porpidiaceae

Species: Clauzadea immersa

Growth type crustose.
Photos: On limestone. Teampall Chronain, the Burren, Ireland.
BLS Burren meeting 2009

White to pale-grey thallus. Deeply immersed blackish-brown apothecia often with pale-grey pruina. Pits in rock are left when apothecia fall out. A black prothallus is sometimes present.

Found throughout Ireland on hard, well-lit limestone, also occurs on church memorials.
Chemical reactions negative, hymenium I+ pale blue.


Clauzadea immersa


Clauzadea immersa


Clauzadea immersa
Clauzadea immersa. BLS Burren meeting, April 2009

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