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Showing posts with label Melanelixia-subaurifera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melanelixia-subaurifera. Show all posts

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Lichens on a Small-Leaved Lime, Tilia cordata, at Buxted Park SSSI 06.08.24

Buxted Park is an old deer park consisting of a variety of unimproved grassland communities with parkland trees and areas of woodland which as a whole support a large invertebrate population. It lies on neutral-acidic soils over Tunbridge Wells Sandstone, Wadhurst Clay and various superficial deposits in the valley of the River Uck 

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These lichens were on this Small-Leaved Lime

May be an image of tree and grass

On this section of a branch these lichens be seen

Parmelia sulcata Usnea cornuta
Pertusaria pertusa Pyrrhospora quernea Physcia tenella
Melanelixia glabratula
(The blobs on P. quernea are spots of sodium hypochlorite and potassium hydroxide, for ID testing purposes).

 No photo description available.

Probably Putussaria pertusa

 No photo description available.

Melanelixia subaurifera

No photo description available.

Evernia prunastri

No photo description available.

Flavoparmelia caperata

 No photo description available.

Lecidella eleaochrima

May be an image of tree and grass

Xanthoria parietina and Parmelua sulcata


Ramalina fastigata

Putusaria leioplaca

No photo description available.

Leprarai incana

May be an image of tree

Phlyctis argena

No photo description available.



Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Lichens on a Pedunculate Oak, Quercus robur. Parham Park. 04.03.24

 
 
Habitat: Pasture woodland. Parham Park is a medieval deer park situated on Folkestone Sands at the foot of the South Downs. It has one of the richest epiphytic lichen floras in south east England. https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/PDFsForWeb/Citation/1000637.pdf 

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Lichens:

Probably Diploicia canescens, White Pleated Lichen, further investigation necessary

Cladonia caespitici, Stubby-stalked Cladonia

Chrysothrix candelari, Gold Dust Lichen
 
 
Pyrrhospora quernea
 
 
Melanelixia subaurifera, Abraded Camouflage Lichen
 
 
Flavoparmelia caperata, Common Greenshield Lichen
 

 
Evernia prunastri, Oakmoss
 
 
Possibly Alyxoria varia, Bark Scribble, further investigation necessary
 


Mosses:
 
Rhynchostegium confertum, Clustered Feather-Moss