Dimelaena radiata


Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks. Xerothermic habitats near the coast.
Note: spore uniseptate, greenish:
Lithology: andesite
Altitude: 40 m
Municipality: Níjar

Dirina massiliensis f. massiliensis

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous and siliceous rocks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 120 m
Municipality: Almería

Dirina massiliensis f. sorediada


Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous and siliceous rocks.
Lithology: andesite and limestone
Altitude: 110 and 150 m
Municipality: Níjar, Almería

Squamulea subsoluta

Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous and calcareous rocks.
Lithology: sandstone
Altitude: 350 m
Municipality: Santa de Cruz de Marchena

Physconia enteroxantha

Foliose, epiphytic corticolous, on diffrente phorophytes.
Note: yelow medulla, marginal soredia.
Phorophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 860 m
Municipality: Laroya

Xanthoria polycarpa



Foliose epiphytic, on eutrophic wood.
Apotecia on the margin of the lobes, polarilocular spores:
Phorophyte: Crataegus monogyna and Ziziphus lotus
Altitude: 1800 m and sea level
Municipality: Abla and Almería

Caloplaca carphinea


Crustose saxicolous, on siliceous rocks.
Lithology: andesite
Altitude: 80 m
Municipality: Níjar

Caloplaca citrina


Crustose saxicolous. on eutrophic calcareous rocks and anthropogenic substrates.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 100 m
Municipality: Almería

Caloplaca flavescens



Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 180 m
Municipality: Enix

Acarospora nodulosa

Crustose, usually on soils with gipsum or basics, beging its grow on others lichens like Diploschistes diacapsis, etc.
Note: small nearly spherical spores, in large number within asci.
Lithology: gypsum
Altitude: 530 m
Municipality: Tabernas

Collema fuscovirens

Gelatinous saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 990 m
Municipality: Turrillas

Acarospora cervina

Crustose with squamules, saxicolous on calcareous roks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 990 m
Municipality: Turrillas

Fulgensia fulgens

Crustose, terricolous, on carbonated soils.
Note: ellipsoidal spores:



Lithology: clay
Altitude: 240 m
Municipality: Vícar

Cladonia convoluta

Foliose, on dry and carbonated soils.
Lithology: clay
Altitude: 230 m
Municipality: Vícar

Caloplaca holocarpa


Crustose saxicolous and epiphytic, on anthropogenic substrates, rarely on calcareous rock and usuallly on bark trees. (For some authors, Caloplaca holocarpa, epiphytic habitus=C. pyracea)
Note: apothecia 0,4(0,8) mm, spores 10-16 x 5-8 micras, septum 3-5 micras:



Paraphysis capitate:

Lithology: limestone, sometimes on Verrucaria calciseda.
Altitude: 110 m
Municipality: Almería

Kuettlingeria erythrocarpa

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 820 m
Municipality: Felix

Kuettlingeria teicholyta


Crustose saxicolous, on walls, tiles, and calcareous rocks.
Note: granular surface at the center of the thallus. Spores:


Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 460 m
Municipality: Pechina

Toninia tristis



Squamulose terricolous-saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Note: epihymenium green, spores ellipsoidal, 1-celled,  10-15,5 x 4,5-6,5 micras:
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 200 m
Municipality: Enix

Physcia tenella


Foliose lobulate, on bark and saxicolous.
Phorophyte: Crataegus monogyna
Altitude: 1.635 m
Municipality: Felix

Acarospora placodiiformis

Squamules with lobulated periphery, growing on soils with gypsum.
Note: thallus bright yelow when wet.
Lithology: gypsum
Altitude: 510 m
Municipality: Tabernas

Diploschistes diacapsis


Crustose, terricolous, warted-granulated, on carbonated and gypsum soil.
Note: asci with eight spores, muriform, brownish-grey.
Asci with inmadurated spores and madurated spores above but collapsed:

Lithology: loam
Altitude: 200 m
Municipality: Níjar

Xanthoria calcicola

Crustose saxicolous, on calcareous and siliceous rocks, sometimes on soil.
Lithology: conglomerate
Altitude: 90 m
Municipality: Níjar

Toninia tumidula

Crustose-aerolated saxicolous, on calcareous rocks.
Lithology: limestone
Altitude: 700 m
Municipality: Felix

Evernia prunastri

Fruticose epiphytic, on different trees, preferably planifolia, in foggy places.
Note: with veins above the upper surface, white below.
Phorophyte: Quercus ilex
Altitude: 1.000 m
Municipality: Tabernas

Roccella phycopsis


Fruticose saxicolous, on vertical and supervertical acid or basic rocks near the coast.
Note: cortex and soralia C+ carmine-red, attached to the substrate by a base of yelow medulla.
Lithology: andesite
Altitude: 30 m
Municipality: Níjar