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Myriolecis pruinosa Chaub. 

Description: This rarity is known only from County Clare. Usually white or yellow-white, the thallus forms rounded crumpled patches with lobed edges on vertical limestone walls. Discs are common like little buff-coloured jam tarts scattered on the surface, sprinkled with an icing-sugar frosting of pruina; thallus C+ orange.

Key Identification Features:

  • Not unlike a diminutive, yellow-white crumpled version of Solenopsora candicans but C+ orange
  • Discs frequent, brown, thickly pruinose.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Myriolecis pruinosa at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

 Giavarini, Vince J., Simms, Michael J., & Davey, Simon, 2026. Myriolecis pruinosa. Chaub. . [In] Lichen Ireland.
https://www.habitas.org.uk/lichenireland/species.php?item=500054. Accessed on 2026-11-12.