Description: This tiny epiphyte is a pretty sight and can grow on the evergreen surfaces of old leaves especially those of box (Buxus) in damp, sheltered situations — often by the edge of large plantations. The small, angular discs (to 0.3mm diam.) vary in colour from white to orange and sit on a grey-green, finely granular thallus. It does not always have to be leaves; it will cover larch twigs or spread to stony debris too; local. North and south-west Ireland.

Key Identification Features:

• Small, angular, orange discs on hard, leathery leaves of Buxus or twigs of evergreens
• Always found in damp, sheltered (but well-illuminated) situations.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

Distribution Map from NBN: Fellhanera bouteillei at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Fellhanera bouteillei at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.