Caloplaca cerina var. muscorum

Crustose terricolous, on bryophytes, siliceous substrates.
Lithology: schist
Altitude: 1.805 m
Municipality: Gérgal

Peltigera canina

Foliose muscicolous, on acid and basic substrates.
Note: upper surface felted-tomentose:

Rhizines fasciculate, cottony, white or brown toward the centre of the thallus:

Lower surface white-tomentose with white narrow veins and crushed that darken toward the centre:

Without isidia.
Lithology: schist
Altitude: 1.805 m
Municipality: Gérgal

Parmelia saxatilis

Foliose saxicolous and epiphyte, on siliceous rocks and acid-bark.
Note: with a white network of veins (pseudocyphellae).

Isidia cilindrical or coraliform.

Underside black with many rhizines black.

Lithology: schist
Altitude: 1.805 m
Municipality: Gérgal

Xanthoparmelia stenophylla

Foliose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks.
Note: thallus green-yelow, with numerous black spots (pynidia).
Detail of the lobes:

Lithology: schist
Altitude: 1.805 m
Municipality: Gérgal

Catapyrenium daedaleum

Squamulose terricolous, on soils mixed with mosses.

Note: our material is sterile, however, the others characters and its ecology, make us think, that it is

C. daedaleum.

Upper cortex thin, poorly delimited from the algal layer, medulla thick with loose hyphae, lower cortex lacking, pycnidia absent, upper surface faintly pruinose. Hypo/prothallus dark.

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Living in the supra- to oro-mediterranean belt.

Lithology: on mosses between schist.

Altitude: 1.850 m

Municipality: Abrucena

Lecidea lapicida var. pantherina

Crustose saxicolous on siliceous rocks.
Note: thallus K+ orange to red, Cl-, KCl-, medulla I+ blue.

Epithecium brown-green to green-blue. Thecium colorless, hipothecium colorless to pale brown.
Coherent paraphyses, spores ellipsoidal to subglobose, colorless, 10-14 x 6,5-8,5 micras.

Lithology: schist
Altitude: 1.850 m
Municipality: Abrucena

Rhizocarpon oportense

Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks.

Note: thallus K-, Cl-, I-, epithecium dark green, spores muriform dark brown quickly, 27,5-32,5 x 16-19 micras.

Lithology: diorite
Altitude: 150 m
Municipality: Mojácar

Lobothallia alphoplaca

Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks.
Note: thallus K+ yelow later red

Very convex lobes, it is easily removed from the substrate, apothecia dark red-brown, epithecium brown.

Lithology: schist

Altitude: 1.850 m

Municipality: Abrucena

Umbilicaria vellea

Foliose umbilicate, saxicolous on siliceous rocks.
Note: lower surface with abundant dark rhizines not joined the rock.

Apothecia in small numbers, dark disc, with rich folds.

Spores unicellular, colorless and usually triangular, 10-14 x 7-9 micras.

Lithology: schist
Altitude: 1.985 m
Municipality: Abrucena

Lecidea lithophila

Crustose saxicolous on siliceous rocks.
Note: partially rust-colored from acumulation of iron oxides.
Lithology: schist
Altitude: 1.875 m
Municipality: Abrucena