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Species of Rocky Shores
Species of Sediment Shores


Xanthoria ectanoides

Xanthoria ectanoides

Foliose thallus composed of narrow (<2mm.), strap like, branching and overlapping lobes, usually bright orange yellow in colour. Very rarely has fruiting bodies. Found almost exclusively on high nitrate, bird perching rocks, in the supralittoral.


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