Order: Peltigerales       Family: Lobariaceae Species: Sticta limbata Growth type foliose. Photos: Bantry House and Ballingeary, Cork, SW Ireland. Pale grey to dull grey-brown, +/- single-lobed thallus. Lobes rounded at apices. Lower surface pale brownish, tomentose with scattered pale cyphellae. Margins with blue-grey or brownish, farinose soredia. Apothecia are very rare. Most frequent on mossy trees and rocks in old woodland in SW and W Ireland. Chemical reactions negative. Smells of fish when wet. Similar: Peltigera collina, ridged undersurface with rhizines. Nephroma parile, under surface of lobes smooth.

Sticta limbata. June and August 2009