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13-04-2009, 09:40 PM
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| | | Unidentified Lichen - I think
Not sure what this was but didn't think it was Fungi. 
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13-04-2009, 09:42 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified Lichen - I think
It is a Lichen Ron - a Peltigera sp. |
13-04-2009, 09:44 PM
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Many thanks. I learn something new every day 
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13-04-2009, 09:48 PM
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Hi Ron,
Don't take this as 100%, but it looks like photo's I've seen of Peltigera praetextata
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13-04-2009, 10:16 PM
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Cheers Mike, I googled it and it does look like your suggestion.
Ron
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13-04-2009, 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by ron1863  Cheers Mike, I googled it and it does look like your suggestion.
Ron |
Not criticising Mike's suggestion and he was pretty close (right genus, right group within the genus), but it is so vitally important to check text descriptions as well as looking at the general resemblance when following up such a suggestion. Google with care!
In this case, the surface is much too downy for P. praetextata and it lacks the diagnostic clumps of isidia/schizidia/thingies, so it is not that.
In fact it is Peltigera membranacea - one of our two most common 'dog lichens'. (The other is P. hymenina, with a completely smooth upper surface, but there are others that are very similar.)
To compare the two: Peltigera praetextata (images of British lichens) Peltigera membranacea (images of British lichens)
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13-04-2009, 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by AlanS Not criticising Mike's suggestion and he was pretty close (right genus, right group within the genus), but it is so vitally important to check text descriptions as well as looking at the general resemblance when following up such a suggestion. Google with care!
In this case, the surface is much too downy for P. praetextata and it lacks the diagnostic clumps of isidia/schizidia/thingies, so it is not that.
In fact it is Peltigera membranacea - one of our two most common 'dog lichens'. (The other is P. hymenina, with a completely smooth upper surface, but there are others that are very similar.)
To compare the two: Peltigera praetextata (images of British lichens) Peltigera membranacea (images of British lichens)
Alan |
Thanks Alan, as you have probably gathered, I know nothing about lichens 
Ron
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