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(Lichenes) (Lichens)

Date: 6 November 2006
Location: Derby, England
State: Perfect stage
Record Summary: on large limestone boulder, embedded in the ground
Identification Notes: Substrate: hard limestone.
Thallus: very pale bluish grey, areolate, with bluish marginal prothallus.
Apothecia: black, sunken, initially small sunken dimples, then pycnidia-like dots with radially cracking whitish margins, becoming stellate, finally more or less circular and pruinose.

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magnified photograph Scraped thallus - magnified 500 by 474 pixels

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