Lecidella carpathica morphotype "maritime".

    Thallus relatively thick, whitish, dirty whitish a little yellowish, grayish or greenish. Apothecia numerous, at first flat and included in the thallus then sessile and convex and even globose, at first blackish then brownish and reddish-brown a little purple especially in rainy weather and in winter. Semi-opaque orange-brown hypothecium especially in KOH (lighter brown in reddish apothecia). Spores broadly elliptical to "almond", 11-17 x 6-8 µm according to our measurements. Thallus: C+/- yellow, K+ yellow, KC+ yellow, P+/- yellow. Morphotype coming to the base and close to the ground of shale rocks at the top of cliffs very exposed to sea spray and splashes of sea water.

N.B. Identification confirmed by Cl. Roux.