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Common orange lichen
Xanthoria parietina
40.533, -3.68036
Field Notes
Description:
Xanthoria parietina is a foliose, pale- to golden-yellow or orange, grey in shade, lacking isidia or soredia; The fruit bodies called apothecia are usually present, margins concolorous with thallus, disks orange.
Habitat:
Generally very common on nutrient-enriched bark and stonework, often abundant on coastal rocks.
This specimen was found on a twig of a Holm oak tree.
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedFebruary 14, 2012
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