Description: This blackish, tidily organised ‘jelly lichen’ often forms small rosettes (2-6cm diam.) over the surfaces of hard limestones. The lobes are thick, raised up in the centre and radiating but neatly spaced — almost overlapping or superimposed one on another — and unusually rich in discs (0.5-1.5mm diam.) which stand proud of the thallus. There are no isidia. Frequent in the west and central Ireland; rare elsewhere.

Key Identification Features:

• Thallus usually of small rosettes (<7cm diam.), the lobes, thick, radiating, gently touching and crammed with discs towards the ends
• On hard limestones generally.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Enchylium polycarpon at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.