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Ochrolechia parella

Ochrolechia parella is a greyish white lichen that lives in the splash zone. It is crustose (see Caloplaca) and the little round blobs you can see are its fruiting bodies. The fruiting bodies are said by deranged people to resemble crab's eyes so in their madness they sometimes call this the crab's eye lichen.


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