Order: Arthoniales       Family: Arthoniaceae Species: Arthonia radiata Growth type crustose. Photos: Ballingeary area, Co. Cork, SW Ireland. Specimen immediately below identified by Brian Coppins Immersed small white, pale-grey or olive-brown tinged thallus often surrounded by brown line. Crowded, black, rounded or star-shaped apothecia, not pruinose, only slightly raised. Ascus 8-spored. Spores 3-septate, the upper cell not enlarged, 15-20 x 5-7 µm. Microscope photographs below. A pioneer species that is very common on smooth-barked shrubs and trees throughout Ireland. Chemical reactions negative.

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Arthonia radiata Ballingeary, Co. Cork. May, August and October 2009