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Caloplaca arcis
A tiny, bright yellow or orange-tinted Caloplaca that forms rosette-like clusters of areoles, minutely squamulose or lobed at the margins and bearing spherical blastidia up to 0.1mm across; apothecia with yellow-orange discs, thalline margins generally persistent.
It reacts to K turning crimson.
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On walls and in churchyards.
All year round.
Widespread and locally frequent.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Lichens
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Teloschistales
- Family:
- Teloschistaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 15/06/2013 (Ivan Pedley)
- Last record:
- 01/02/2022 (Nicholls, David)
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