List compiled by Jeremy Bartlett. Last updated 23rd March 2023.
General information on lichens can be found on the British Lichen Society website.
Lichens have been recorded as follows:
PL – Peter Lambley (previous Norfolk Lichen Recorder) on a guided walk on 12th May 2018. TG209086. 25 species recorded.
RL – Rob Yaxley (current Norfolk Lichen Recorder) on a visit on 4th March 2023 and guided walk on 11th March 2023. Eastern part of Cemetery. 56 species recorded.
Species | Notes |
Amandinea punctata | Hungarian oak (RY) |
Arthonia radiata | Trees – twigs (RY) |
Arthonia spadicea | Trees – trunks (RY) |
Bilimbia sabuletorum | Memorial (RY) |
Caloplaca citrina agg | Limestone memorials (RY) |
Caloplaca dichroa | Memorials (PL, RY) |
Caloplaca flavescens | Limestone memorials – not common here (abundant in rural churchyards) (PL, RY) |
Caloplaca marmorata | Limestone memorials (PL) |
Candelaria concolor | Tree – willow (RY) |
Candelariella aurella | Sandstone memorials (RY) |
Candelariella medians | Sandstone memorials (RY) |
Candelariella vitellina | Sandstone memorials (PL, RY) |
Chaenotheca trichialis | Big oak (RY) |
Chrysothrix candelaris | Trees – trunk (RY) |
Cladonia fimbriata | Gravel tomb (RY), on ground (PL) |
Cliostomum griffithii | Big oak (RY) |
Collema auriforme | Memorial garden on limestone boulders (RY) |
Evernia prunastri | Trees (RY) |
Hypotrachyna afrorevoluta | Trees – twigs (RY) |
Illosporiopsis christiansenii | Lichenocolous fungus on Physcia (RY) |
Lecania cyrtella | Trees – trunk (RY) |
Lecania turicensis | Limestone memorial (RY) |
Lecanora albescens | Limestone memorial (PL) |
Lecanora campestris | Memorials (PL, RY) |
Lecanora chlarotera | Trees (PL) |
Lecanora expallens | Trees – trunks (RY), sandstone memorials (PL) |
Lecanora hybocarpa | Trees – twigs (RY) |
Lecanora muralis | Sandstone memorials (PL, RY) |
Lecanora polytropa | Sandstone memorials (PL) |
Lecanora soralifera | Sandstone memorials (PL) |
Lecidella elaeochroma | Trees – twigs (RY) |
Lecidella scabra | Sandstone memorial (RY) |
Lecidella stigmatea | Chapel walls (RY) |
Lepraria incana sensu lato | Trees – trunks, and memorials (RY) |
Leptogium gelatinosum | Limestone memorials (RY) |
Leptogium turgidum | In letters on limestone tomb (RY) |
Marchandobasidium aurantiacum | Lichenocolous fungus on Physcia (RY) |
Melanelixia subaurifera | Trees – twigs (PL, RY) |
Myriolecis albescens | Chapel, on hard limestone (RY) |
Opegrapha calcarea | Limestone memorials (RY) |
Opegrapha herbarum | Trees – trunks (RY) |
Opegrapha niveoatra | Trees – trunks (RY) |
Opegrapha viridipruinosa | Trees – trunks (RY) |
Parmelia saxatilis | Single thallus near big oak on sandstone memorial (RY) |
Parmelia sulcata | Trees – trunks (PL, RY) |
Petractis clausa | First east Norfolk VC27 record. (RY) |
Phaeophyscia orbicularis | Trees – trunks (RY) |
Physcia adscendens | Trees – twigs (RY), limestone headstones and trees (PL) |
Physcia caesia | Limestone memorials (PL) |
Physcia orbicularis | Limestone memorials (PL) |
Physcia tenella | Trees – twigs (RY) |
Physconia grisea | Trees – trunks (RY) |
Placopyrenium fuscellum | Limestone memorials (RY) |
Porina aenea | Trees – trunk (RY) |
Porpidia tuberculosa | Sandstone memorials (RY) |
Protoblastenia rupestris | Limestone memorials (RY) |
Psilolechia lucida | Sandstone memorial (PL, RY) |
Punctelia jeckerii | Trees (PL) |
Punctelia subrudecta | Trees – trunks and twigs (PL, RY) |
Ramalina sp | Trees (RY) |
Sarcogyne regularis | Chapel walls (RY) |
Strigula taylori | Third Norfolk locality, spreading species (RY) |
Verrucaria nigrescens | Chapel, on hard limestone (PL, RY) |
Xanthoria candelaria | Trees (PL) |
Xanthoria parietina | Trees (RY), trees and limestone memorials (PL) |