Irish lichens
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Order: Lecanorales
Family: Ramalinaceae
Species: Bacidia inundata Photos: On rock in shaded streams. Ballingeary, Cork, SW Ireland Smooth or areolate greenish-grey or green-fawn, granular thallus surrounded by a prominent white prothallus. Small, flat, brown apothecia becoming convex and +/- contorted. The pycnidia are +/- immersed, either white or dark brown. Occurs throughout Ireland on shaded acidic rocks in or beside clear, un-polluted streams, rivers and lakes. Chemical reactions negative. |
Bacidia inundata. February 2009