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Ophioparma ventosa (L.) Norman
(= Haematomma ventosum (L.) Massal.)
Thallus a thick, areolate, warted, cream to yellow-grey (f. ventosa) or strongly grey (f. subfestiva) crust; apothecia flat, blood-red to red-brown, usually abundant. Locally common on base-poor rocks in upland ares of the north and west.
Refs: Smith et al. (2009), 647; Purvis et al. (1992), 416 (as O. "ventosum"); Dobson (2005), 295-296 (photo); Jahns (1983), 206-7 (photo, as H. ventosum); Wirth (1995), 2: 630 (photo, f. subfestiva); Moberg & Holmåson (1984), 110 (photo, as H. ventosum); Holien & Tønsberg (2008), 177 (photo); Hansen & Anderson (1995), 91 (photo, as H. ventosum); Puntillo (1996), plate 27 (photo); Brodo et al. (2001), 473-474 (photo); Pope (2005), 53 (photo).
Braemar, Aberdeenshire, April 2002
Braemar, Aberdeenshire, March 2008
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