Description: This olive green to brown, rosette-forming, foliose lichen is a common species of well-lit tree boles, twigs and branches. The closely attached thallus is shiny like gloss paint especially at the lobe ends. Away from the margins it is covered in stiff, stick-like isidia which, if rubbed, leave white patches.

Key Identification Features:

• Glossy, olive-green to brown lobes
• Upper surface crowded with stick-like isidia; soredia not present.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Melanelixia glabratula at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.