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Description:
Gyalecta truncigena, growing on a limestone gravestone at West Winterslow, Wiltshire. The thallus is scurfy and the apothecia small (<0.5 mm diam.). Colonies of this species on shaded monumentsĀ could be easily overlooked as dingy brown algal crusts.
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