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Crustose lichens:- apothecia without a thalline margin


Apothecia white, cream or pale coloured


Fellhanera bouteillei Scoliciosporum pruinosum Micarea alabastrites Bacidia arnoldiana Bacidia squamellosa Bacidia delicata Vezdaea cobria Vezdaea rheocarpa Vezdaea aestivalis Lecania cuprea

Apothecia orange


Protoblastenia rupestris Protoblastenia incrustans Protoblastenia calva Dimerella lutea Pachyphiale carneola Biatorella fossarum Gyalecta jenensis Petractis clausa Agyrium rufum Caloplaca ochracea

Apothecia red to brown


Miriquidica leucophaea Acarospora fuscata Acarospora smaragdula Mycobilimbia pilularis Micarea prasina Porocyphus kenmorensis Bacidia assulata Biatora vernalis Sarcosagium campestre campestre

Apothecia very dark to black


Lecanora sulphurea Fuscidea cyathoides Fuscidea lightfootii Fuscidea kochiana Fuscidea praeruptorum Cyphelium inquinans Miriquidica nigroleprosa Porpidia cinereoatra Porpidia striata Porpidia speirea Porpidia platycarpoides Porpidia flavocruenta Porpidia islandica Porpidia nadvornikiana Porpidia pachythallina Porpidia superba-sorediata Porpidia crustulata Lecidea fuliginosa Lecidea fuscoatra Lecidea grisella Lecidea lithophila Lecidea hypnorum Lecidea lapicida Miriquidica pycnocarpa Miriquidica pycnocarpa f sorediata Bilimbia sabuletorum Bilimbia lobulata Megalaria pulverea Megalaria grossa Megalaria laureri Sarcogyne regularis Carbonea assimilis Cyphelium tigillare Hertelidea botryosa Mycoblastis sanguinarius Strangospora moriformis Lopadium disciforme Rhizocarpon geographicum Rhizocarpon lecanorinum Rhizocarpon eupetraeoides Rhizocarpon petraeum Rhizocarpon furfurosum Rhizocarpon reductum Rhizocarpon ridescens Rhizocarpon cinereovirens Rhizocarpon oederi Tremolecia atrata Clauzadea monticola Clauzadea immersa Placynthium nigrum Fellhaneropsis myrtillicola Catillaria chalybeia Catillaria lenticularis Lecidella elaeochroma Lecidella stigmatea Lecidella scabra Lecidella asema Scoliciosporum umbrinum Micarea melaena Micarea lignaria Micarea prasinella Micarea peliocarpa Schismatomma decolorans Buellia aethalea Buellia disciformis Buellia stellulata Aspicilia caesiocinerea Aspicilia calcarea Aspicilia leprosescens Aspicilia contorta Carbonea vitellinaria Polysporina lapponica Polysporina simplex Cresponea premnea Acarospora sinopica Amandinea punctata Amandinea lecideina Bacidia incompta Bacidia laurocerasi Bacidia scopulicola Bacidia inundata Placynthiella icmalea Melaspilea ochrothalamia Pyrrhospora quernea Catolechia wahlenbergii Schaereria cinereorufa Byssoloma leucoblepharum Gomphillus calycioides Epilichen scabrosus Xerotrema quercicola

Apothecia 'Arthonioid'


Arthonia cinnabarina Arthonia vinosa Arthonia pruinata Arthonia spadicea Arthonia leucopellaea Arthonia arthonioides Arthonia radiata Arthonia zwackhii