Description: One of Ireland’s commonest lichens of walls and buildings and despite it being a crustose species, you would be forgiven for thinking that it might be one of the powder (leprose) lichens. The thallus is comprised of orange, granular areoles sometimes with minute lobes, from which arises a mass of smaller, orange soredia (clusters of fungal hyphae and algae) which can sometimes smother the entire plant except for the discs. Discs are frequent, the margins of which are also sorediate. Calcareous rocks, wall mortar, tree crevices, soil and mosses.

Key Identification Features:

• Thallus of minute orange soredia
• Orange discs frequent, with sorediate margins.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

Distribution Map from NBN: Flavoplaca citrina s. lat. at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Flavoplaca citrina s. lat. at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.