Description: A distinctive crustose lichen, with radiating egg-yellow lobes that are flattened at their tips. Apothecia may be present towards centre of the thallus. Only found on limestone in sunny and relatively dry habitats. In Ireland largely confined to low rainfall regions in the east.

Key Identification Features:

• Egg-yellow colour.
• Radiating lobes flattened at their tips.
• On dry sunny limestone.

Original text submitted by Michael J. Simms

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

iNaturalist: Variospora aurantia at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.