Caloplaca flavovirescens

Caloplaca flavovirescens

A crustose, saxicolous lichen with densely packed orange apothecia on a thin yellow thallus.
Golden lichen? Glowing in the early evening sunshine, a lovely golden patch of lichen ( I think). It was facing the sea and open to the winds and the elements. Caloplaca flavovirescens,Cumbria,Early Summer,Geotagged,coastal.United Kingdom

Naming

(Wulfen) Dalla Torre & Sarnth 1902

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Taxonomy
KingdomFungi
DivisionAscomycota
ClassLecanoromycetes
OrderTeloschistales
FamilyTeloschistaceae
GenusCaloplaca
SpeciesCaloplaca flavovirescens
Photographed in
France
United Kingdom