Lecania turicensis Ramalinaceae
Lecania turicensis

Growth type crustose
Chemical results negative

The most frequent saxicolous Lecania species. Very common on both calcareous and non-calcareous rocks and on mortar.

White or greyish, deeply-cracked areolate thallus with very crowded apothecia, the discs reddish-brown to black. Thallus and apothecia usually +/- pruinose. Spores 1-septate, 10.5-13 × 4.5-6 µm. Micro photo below.

Similar: Lecania atrynoides, non-pruinose discs speckled brown when wet. Lecania rabenhorstii, only apothecia and margins are pruinose


Lecania turicensis

Lecania turicensis

Lecania turicensis

Microscope photograph
Lecania turicensis
Lecania turicensis
Lytchett Minster, Dorset. December 2016

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