Caloplaca arcis

Description

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.

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

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Habitat

On walls and in churchyards.

When to see it

All year round.

UK Status

Widespread and locally frequent.

VC55 Status

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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