#degelia

More blue felt lichens :3

As well as a bushy blue prothallus, these lichens also bear the distinctive aroma of TCP - a british brand of antiseptic.

Degelia gayana

This foliose cyanolichen has rounded, wedge-shaped or fan-shaped lobes that grow loosely attached to the surface of bark and small branches. The upper surface is felty and pale gray-blue in color, with concentric ridges towards the incised or lobulate margins. The lower surface is white, with thick, concentric lines of rhizines. It produces numerous red-brown to black-brown apothecia, which has flat to convex discs surrounded by a thin, pale margin. D. gayana can be found in South America, Australia, New Zealand, and Tristan da Cunha (a place I hadn't heard about until just now when I spent a half-hour reading its wikipedia page instead of working), where it grows in shady, humid lowlands.

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