Firedot Lichen at Macarthur, ACT
Identification history
| Caloplaca sp. | 5 Feb 2019 | Heino1 | ||
| Teloschistes sp. (genus) | 23 Jun 2018 | RodDeb |
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User's notes
on multiple trees
1 comment
Heino1
wrote:
5 Feb 2019
In both Teloschistes and Caloplaca you find round, orange apothecia (the structures in which the fungal partners produces spores). Ignore the apothecia and concentrate on the rest of the lichen ( i.e. the thallus). In Caloplaca the the thallus is usually flattish and may look like little more than a coat of paint or may be a thicker and often lobed sheet. A Teloschistes thallus is branched and somewhat shrubby (perhaps with just short, wispy branches).
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.134712-35.407559
- Altitude 670.4m
- Maps Wanniassa Hill
- Places Macarthur, ACT
Sighting information
- 25 Abundance
- 23 Jun 2018 12:55 PM Recorded on
- RodDeb Recorded by
Species information
- Caloplaca sp. Scientific name
- Firedot Lichen Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 893.6m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
