Gyrographa saxigena
Script lichens are notorious for being a real pain-in-the-ass to ID visually, but every description I see for this species is covered in caveats about its official classification and synonymy, meaning that even microscopically and molecularly this lichen is proving to be a pain-in-the-ass. I love it. G. saxigena is a crustose, script lichen that (most likely) grows on sheltered seaside rocks or on siliceous rocks in humid, mild-temperate, old-growth forests. It has a thin, often endosubstratic, gray-brown thallus topped by black, lirelliform (linear or script-like) apothecia. These apothecia are not embedded in the substrate, and often grow together in little tangled bunches or networks. It has a trentapohlioid photobiont.
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