Description: This is a rare lichen of rocky coastal heath and siliceous sea cliffs. It is known only from Tearaght Island in the Blasket Islands and the remote Skellig Michael in south-west Ireland. The tufted or scattered pale green-grey thallus is distinct in its resemblance to threads of hair, mottled black, bearing pointed, hook-tipped branches.

Key Identification Features:

• Thallus: thread-like (growing to 5cm long) without isidia or soredia
• Green-grey, smudged with black, often twisted around other lichens. By the sea: cliffs (grey zone), coastal heath, south-west Ireland.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Ramalina chondrina at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.