Description: An epiphyte of twigs and timber fencing L. varia has a rather shiny thallus of small, warty, yellow-grey to green-grey granules sometimes forming a crust. Discs: pale greenish or brown (to 1.5mm diam.), with a flexed, sometimes considerably distorted rim (exciple). Thallus is Pd + Yellow. Eastern and south-eastern Ireland.

Key Identification Features:

• Yellow to grey-green, granular, shiny thallus; on wooden rail tops, sometimes oak twigs
• Disc exciple weak and easily distorted; east and south-east Ireland mainly.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Lecanora varia at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.