Description: The small, reddish-brown, cushion-like thallus of this species is rather granular or scaly. It overgrows decaying mosses and liverworts in gritty soil pockets among moist, flaky schistose rocks. It is a species of high ridges and exposed mountain tops. In Ireland there are nineteenth-century records from Kylemore in Connemara, County Galway.

Key Identification Features:

• Thallus red-brown forming tiny, cushion-like buttons on eroding mountain soils (especially mica schists)
• Presumed extinct in Ireland though a thorough search of the former habitat is required.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Euopsis pulvinata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.