The pale orange discs of fungal apothecia fruiting amidst a mat of algal filaments are a dead giveaway that this is a lichen symbiosis between an Ascomycete fungus and a green alga (Trentepohlia).
Leon Perrie
2014-11-01
2014-11-01
New Zealand, Wellington, Wellington, Eastbourne, hills east of Puriri Street junction with Muritai Road.