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Kuettlingeria ceracea, Caloplaca ceracea Teloschistaceae
Kuettlingeria ceracea (Caloplaca ceracea)

Growth type crustose
Chemical results: Thallus K-, apothecia K+ red

Usually coastal on shaded siliceous rocks, rare inland.

Areolate pale grey thallus, prothallus paler or absent, the orangish to rusty brown convex apothecia becoming greener when wet. The disc and paler, matt margins are sometimes pruinose.

Similar: C. crenularia. Shiny margins, discs remaining orange when wet


Caloplaca ceracea

Caloplaca ceracea
Kuettlingeria ceracea (Caloplaca ceracea)
Redhorn Bay, Studland, Dorset. June 2015

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