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    <title>DigitalNatura.Org - Melanelia disjuncta (=M. granulosa), new for Catalonia</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Picture taken on the 9th April 2007 at &quot;Gorges du Segre&quot; near Bains de Lló, Llo, Oriental Pyrenees, France, on schists, siliceous rock, West oriented, 75 º, water-track, iron metal-rich area, not very frequent, 1380 m altitude.

Holarctic distribution, rare in the South of Europe. It has been found in Spain at Sierra Filabres (Almería), Galizia, Ávila, Navarra and now for first time for Catalonia, assuming  Roussillon as part of Catalonia (Països Catalans).

Saxicolous, siliceous, hydrophilous, foliose lichen, green thallus arriving to brown colour (see both colours in the same photo), lobes small, dichotomous branched, without poils, imbricating each other,White pseudocyphella,minute isidia often breaking into numerous granular soredia.

Medulla: KC+ pink

Perlatolic and sterosptic acids

See variability of thallus at the wonderful Norwegian Lichen Gallary, probably the best in the world:

http://www.nhm.uio.no/botanisk/lavherb.htm    (Index or Photo Gallery)

The Spanish territory is covered by the following work:

Victor J. Rico &amp;E. Manrique (1995) Los géneros Melanelia SSL. y Neofuscelia ESSL (Ascomycotina, Parmeliaceae) en el Centro de España, Datos corológicos y clave de especies. Lazaroa, Vol 16, pp 9-25.

Armand Tomás Vidal

Nikon Coolpix 4.500

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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:25:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Molt bona</title>
      <link>http://digitalnatura.org/details.php?image_id=5683#comment6778</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:56:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Molt bon macro i molt interessant l'explicació. M'ha agradat molt l'enllaç de la galeria de líquens noruega, el sistema de veure el líquen en vista general i els zooms de detall és impressionant.]]></description>
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              <author><![CDATA[fbaldris@sigmascorpii.com (Francesc Baldrís)]]></author>
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