Description: This is an easily overlooked lichen of moist mossy boulders. At Killarney, it was discovered among mossy boulders by a fast-flowing river through woodland. The thallus is a thin film and the discs, top-shaped when young, with narrowly ellipsoid one-septate spores. The thallus has been compared to that of V. leprosa. It is very rare in Ireland.

Key Identification Features:

• Thallus like that of V. leprosa, but thin like a film of plastic; moist mossy sites preferred (for example, the bouldery ravines in the vicinity of waterfalls)
• Discs cone-shaped, spores narrow, one-septate (13–15µm long).

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

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

iNaturalist: Vezdaea stipitata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.