Description: This very conspicuous, unmistakable bright orange, shrubby lichen (Golden-hair lichen) has a richly branched thallus forming small whiskery tufts on trees among leafy lichens, or grows close to the ground on rocks and boulders by the sea, sometimes forming dense patches. In Ireland, it occurs along the south coast but is local elsewhere.

Key Identification Features:

• Bright orange, forming small to large entangled wiry clumps on tree boles, rocks or on the ground
• Discs when present, orange with a thin margin; rare and decreasing.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Teloschistes flavicans at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.