Irish lichens

Bilimbia sabuletorum

Class: Lecanoromycetes       Incertae sedis

Species: Bilimbia sabuletorum

Growth type crustose, granular.
Photos: Over-growing moss on walls. Co. Cork, SW Ireland.

White or pale grey, coarse or scurfy granular thallus, sometimes evanescent. Convex, +/- rounded apothecia, very variable in colour; discs can be pinkish-brown, brown to dark brown or black. Spores 3-7 septate, 18-40 x 5-8 µm, perispore often finely-warted.
Thallus: chemical reactions negative.

Found growing on plant debris or over moss on calcareous rocks, turf or mortared walls. Also occurs on shaded trunks of old trees.


Bilimbia sabuletorum


Bilimbia sabuletorum


Bilimbia sabuletorum
Above: Bilimbia sabuletorum. Inchigeela Protestant church, August 2009

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