Description: Now extinct in Ireland, this arctic-alpine lichen has a web-like thallus of pale grey, wart-like granules and brown, stalked discs with a conspicuous margin. It grows on peat, mosses, soil and moribund vegetation. It has only ever been known from County Antrim. Spot tests: K+ yellow.

Key Identification Features:

• Forms a webbed thallus of grey warty granules with brown, stalked discs
• Mountain tops with some calcareous outcrop.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Lecanora epibryon at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.