Description: Formerly known as L. piniperda this crustose lichen is best known as a coloniser of wood, Scots pine bark and fence railings. The granular, grey-yellow thallus is speckled with tiny, blue-grey frosted discs 0.2-0.4mm diam. Spores are normally within the range 8-12&

371;m. Reactions negative. In Ireland, the species is thinly scattered.

Key Identification Features:

• Thallus granular, grey-yellow or greenish sprinkled with tiny blue-grey frosted discs; very distinctive
• On tops of fence railings, on wood, on pine bark.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Lecanora coppinsii at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.