Key Identification Features
- is a lichen species defined by specific morphological features.
- It has a distinctive texture that varies from thinly to richly granular-isidiate, meaning it is covered with small granular reproductive structures called isidia that measure 60–120 μm in diameter.
- 7–1 mm in diameter, are usually distinctly constricted at the base, are flat and sometimes become convex, and range in colour from pale to dark red-brown.
- The large specimens featured in the associated photographs have very few apothecia, the spore-producing discs.
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