Description: Unmistakable and conspicuous in its natural habitat of compacted shell-sand, ‘Scrambled-egg lichen’ Fulgensia fulgens is an iconic member of the Irish lichen flora. The orange-yellow, rosette-forming, ground-hugging thallus can reach up to 3cm diam. Deep orange discs are usually present; thallus K+ purple. The lichen is restricted to just one site in County Wexford.

Key Identification Features:

• Rather delicate and friable orange-yellow to pale egg-yellow, K+ purple thallus
• Associated with stable areas of shell-sand dunes.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Gyalolechia fulgens at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.