Lecanora chlarotea

Crustose epiphytic, on different shrubs and trees.

Note: with big crystals in the medulla and apothecium margin.
Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 1.380 m
Municipality: Dalías

Xanthoparmelia conspersa

Foliose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks.
Note: isidia branched or coralloid.
Lithology: schist
Altitude: 660 m
Municipality: Uleila del Campo

Caloplaca pellodella

Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks.
Lithology: schist
Altitude: 670 m
Municipality: Uleila del Campo

Caloplaca inconnexa var. nesodes

Crustose liquenicolous, usually on Aspicilia genus.
Lithology: shale
Altitude: 660 m
Municipality: Uleila del Campo

Lecidella alaeochroma

Crustose epiphytic, on smooth and cracked barks.
Note: hipothecium brownish-grey to reddish, epithecium green:
Spores simple and hyaline:
Forophyte: Ziziphus lotus
Altitude: 12 m
Municipality: Almería

Rinodina bischoffii

Crustose saxicolous, lapidicolous, on calcareous rocks.

Note: spores green-bluish, uni-septate, darker around the septum:

Lithology: limestone, andesite
Altitude: 960 m and at a sea level.
Municipality: Enix, Níjar

Lecanora horiza

Crustose epiphytic without crystals in the epithecium, on trees and shrubs in dry mediterranean places.
Note: crystals in the medulla and in the cortex of the apothecium margin.


Forophyte: Ziziphus lotus
Altitude: 20 m
Municipality: Almería

Lecanora conizaeoides

Crustose epiphytic, on acid barks or high air pollution places.
Forophyte: Ziziphus lotus
Altitude: 20 m
Municipality: Almería

Schismatomma dirinellum

Crustose epiphytic, on branches in mediterranean environments.
Forophyte: Ziziphus lotus
Altitude: 16 m
Municipality: Almería

Arthonia albopulverea

Spores submuriform, 5-6 transverse septa and 1-2 longitudinal septa:

Epiphytic, endolithic, on smooth bark, no rainy mediterranean environment.
Forophyte: Ziziphus lotus
Altitude: 15 m
Municipality: Almería

Rinodina santorinensis

Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks near the coast, frecuently liquenicolous.
Note: grayish brown spore wall, very thick all the way around, 16-21 x 8-12 micras:

Lithology: andesite
Altitude: 25 m
Municipality: Níjar

Lecidella asema

Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks.
Lithology: diorite
Altitude: 160 m
Municipality: Níjar

Candelariella plumbea

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 1.270 m
Municipality: Vélez Rubio

Catillaria chalybeia

Crustose saxicolous, no sun tolerant, on siliceous rocks and walls.
Note: thallus K-, Cl-, KCl-, epithecium and hymenium greenish, spores colourless with a septum, 8-10 x 3-4 micras:

Lithology: mica schist

Altitude: 1.370 m

Municipality: Abrucena

Ramalina pollinaria

Fruticose epiphytic, on eutrophic bark.
Note: soralia oval to irregular, white, on the upper and lower of the lacinia.
Forophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 1.300 m
Municipality: Vélez Rubio

Lecidella stigmatea

Crustose saxicolous, on base-rich and eutrophic siliceous rocks.
Lithology: schist
Altitude: 1.000 m
Municipality: Tabernas

Lepraria incana

Crustose on soil or plant debris. Preferably in shady and wet places, in cracks or under overhangings.
Lithology: clay, limestone
Altitude: 350 m
Municipality: Bédar

Bagliettoa baldensis

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Note: usually with 3-6 fissures radiating from the ostiole.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 70 m
Municipality: Almería

Caloplaca alociza

Crustose endolithic saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.

Note: spores polarilocular, septum 2-5 micras (aproximately one quarter of the spore), ellipsoidal, 13-18 x 7-10 micras.

Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 70 m
Municiplaity: Roquetas de Mar

Lichinella iodopulchra

Gelatinous saxicolous, on calcareous rain-tracks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 190 m
Municipality: Enix

Lecanora sulphurea

Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks.
Note: spores ellipsoidal, hyaline, 10-13 x 4-6 micras:

Lithology: andesite and mica slate
Altitude: 190 m and 1.100 m
Municipality: Níjar and Tabernas

Lecanora polytropa

Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks and walls.
Lithology: schist
Altitude: 1.875 m
Municipality: Abrucena

Rhizocarpon lusitanicum

Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks.
Note: image above on Pertusaria pluripuncta.
Lithology: andesite
Altitude: 120 m
Municipality: Níjar

Lecanora praepostera

Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks.

Note: colourless spores, 10-14 x 6-8 micras. Greenish epithecium.

Thallus K+ yelow later red.

Lithology: phyllites

Altitude: 270 m

Municipality: Sorbas

Acarospora microcarpa

Crustose saxicolous silicicolous-liquenicolous, in the image on Diploschistes actinostomus.
Lithology: phyllite
Altitude: 270 m
Municipality: Sorbas

Diploschistes actinostomus

Crustose, cracked-aerolates, saxicolous, on siliceous or calcareous rocks.
Pore comunicating the apothecium with the outside:

Spores muriform, greenish:

Lithology: mica schist
Altitude: 1.170 m
Municipality: Tabernas