Talpapellis beschiana on Cladonia squamules

Apologies for so many lichenicolous queries on old specimens from SW Ireland but I’ve only got a few more days before Janet finishes importing Irish records and I’d like to get mine included in the update!

I find these spiky ones horribly difficult but this appears to be Talpapellis beschiana on Cladonia squamules (by-catch on a specimen from Glengarriff Woods, 2009).

No apical proliferation and the conidia were simple and within the range given in LF2, page 456

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The identity of the squamules is something else!

Green when collected fading to pale brownish, sorediate, the undersides white and very tomentose, K-, C-, UV- and I’ll check Pd reaction this evening

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