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Caloplaca thallincola (Wedd.) Du Rietz
Thallus egg yellow (in shade) to bright yellow-orange and rather shiny, not pruinose, placodioid (i.e. a crust but lobulate at the margins) with marginal lobes usually long and finger-like, but lobing sometimes less evident on rough rock surfaces; apothecia with orange disks, rather scattered in the centre of the thallus. Generally common on hard, siliceous, coastal rocks in the north and west, frequently growing over the black crusts of Verrucaria maura. The closely similar C. flavescens can occur on moderately base-rich coastal rocks and requires careful distinction.
Refs: Gaya (2009), 110, 187 (photo); Smith et al. (2009), 272; Purvis et al. (1992), 158; Dobson (2005), 107-8 (photo); Dobson (2011), 116-7 (photo); Jahns (1983), 246-247 (photo); van Herk & Aptroot (2004), 108-109 (photo); Dalby & Dalby (2005), 23 (photo); Lichen Atlas of the British Isles 6: 282 (2001). |
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On coastal rocks, overgrowing Verrucaria maura, Millport, Great Cumbrae (Clyde Isles), April 2009
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On coastal rockface, overgrowing Verrucaria maura, Kennedy's Pass, Ayrshire, May 2008,
thallus in upper photograph with film of mud from downwash
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| On coastal rockface, overgrowing Verrucaria maura, Arbroath, Angus, April 2002 |
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