Order: Lecanorales       Family: Ramalinaceae Species: Ramalina farinacea Growth type fruticose. Photos: On trunk and twigs of deciduous trees. Cork, SW Ireland Shrubby pale grey-green or yellow-green thallus with narrow, flattened lobes. Oval or disc-shaped soralia with farinose soredia occur on margins of lobes. Apothecia rare, marginal or laminal. Throughout Ireland on nutrient-rich bark, occasionally on rocks. Medulla and soralia usually K-, occasionally K+ yellow turning red. Similar: Ramalina subfarinacea. Mainly found on coastal rocks. Evernia prunastri. Underside whitish with green patches.

     
Ramalina farinacea. Macroom, Co.Cork. December 2008