Cranfield's Sulphur Lichen
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Cranfield's Sulphur Lichen
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| Cranfield's Sulphur Lichen Whole | | Cranfield's Sulphur Lichen Close | | ||
 | Class: | Fungi (Fungi) - Sac Fungi (Ascomycota) - Lichenised Fungi (Lecanoromycetes) | |||
| Order: | Lichens (Teloschistales) | ||||
| Family: | Lichen (Teloschistaceae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Cranfield's Sulphur Lichen (Gyalolechia cranfieldii) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Whole🔎 | ||||
| Synonym: | Fulgensia cranfieldii | ||||
Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~18mm wide (highly variable, just our latest photo was this wide). We have a lot of these over Ellura. Unlike sulphur slime mould, this doesn't come up yellow, then go brown. It stays this colour for weeks/months. We've not observed one for a long period of time, but it's so widespread, it never seems to change. We thought the black spots were fruiting bodies, but they are just sand particles. The fruiting bodies are orange. | |||||
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