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Xanthoparmelia mougeotii
Thallus foliose, green-grey or distinctly yellow-grey (but commonly appearing pure grey in digital photographs or with digital printing technology), lobes radiating, usually narrow and somewhat serpentine, often convex in cross-section or flattened at the tips, cracked and brown in the centre part of the thallus, with subglobose yellow to grey-yellow soralia on the lobe surfaces, lower surface black; apothecia small, with brown discs and pale, crenulate margins, said to be rare.
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On exposed, base-poor rocks and gravestones, able to colonise various man-made surfaces.
All year round.
Widespread and locally common in Britain.
Widespread and quite common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Lichens
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Lecanorales
- Family:
- Parmeliaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 04/04/2013 (Hall, Geoffrey)
- Last record:
- 18/11/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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