Order: Teloschistales       Family: Teloschistaceae Species: Caloplaca thallincola Growth type placodioid (crustose with lobed margins) Photos: On coastal rocks. Co. Cork, SW Ireland. Thallus yellowish-orange to bright orange, areolate in the centre with long convex lobes radiating outwards. Scattered apothecia in centre with margins the same colour as the thallus. Only found on hard coastal, sheltered, siliceous rocks, often occuring with Verrucaria maura K+ crimson / purple.

     



Caloplaca thallincola. Coastal rock, Bantry, Co.Cork. December 2008