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Physconia distorta (With.) J.R.Laundon
Foliose, thallus green when wet, drying grey or grey-brown, lacking isidia or soralia, tips of lobes pruinose, black bottle-brush-like rhizines on the undersides; apothecia usually present, strongly pruinose, margins thick, warted to minutely lobed. Widespread on bark, rarely on nutrient-enriched rocks.
Refs: Smith et al. (2009), 704; Purvis et al. (1992), 471; Dobson (2005), 343 (photo); Dobson (2011), 343-4 (photo); Jahns (1983), 252-253 (photo, as P. pulveracea, printed with incorrect colour in my copy); Nordic Lichen Flora (2002) 2: 39, 99 (photo); van Haluwyn et al. (2009), 46-7 (photos); van Herk & Aptroot (2004), 302-3 (photo); Wirth (1995), 2: 729, 737 (photo); Wirth et al. (2004), 122 (photo); Frahm et al. (2010), 139 (photo); Moberg & Holmåson (1984), 205 (photo, as P. pulverulacea); Holien & Tønsberg (2008), 79 (photo); Lichen Atlas of the British Isles 3: 1130 (1998). |
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On Ash (Fraxinus excelsior), Slapton, Devon, August 2011
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Taymouth, Perthshire, April 2002
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| In very dry state, Glen Tilt, Perthshire, April 2008 |
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